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    1. “We are what we believe we are.” – CS lewis
    2. “Forgiveness does not mean excusing.”- CS lewis
    3. “With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”- CS lewis
    4. “The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.”- CS lewis
    5. “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – CS lewis

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    Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: what! You too? I thought i was the only one.

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    What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

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    Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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    Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.

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    Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.

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    A man can no more diminish god’s glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

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    There is no uncreated being except god. God has no opposite.

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    We regard god as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies, but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.

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    We are not necessarily doubting that god will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

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    You must ask for god’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

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    It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see god, for only the pure in heart want to.

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    God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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    God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

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    We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of god. The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito.

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    God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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    The instrument through which you see god is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of god will be blurred.

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    Relying on god has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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    It cost god nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion.

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    There are only two kinds of people: those who say to god, thy will be done, and those to whom god says, all right, then, have it your way.

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    When you are arguing against god you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.

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    The son of god became a man to enable men to become sons of god.

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    It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with god.

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    God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with him as if you were the only being he had ever created.

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    If god had granted all the silly prayers i’ve made in my life, where should i be now?

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    There is but one good; that is god. Everything else is good when it looks to him and bad when it turns from him.

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    Though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not.

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    This is one of the miracles of love: it gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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    Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

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    Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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    With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

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    We are what we believe we are.

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    Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

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    Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

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    The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.

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    Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

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    Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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    Jesus christ did not say, go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.

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    Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that i have just successfully defended in a public debate.

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    It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

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    If you’re thinking of becoming a christian, i warn you, you’re embarking on something, which will take the whole of you.

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    The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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    You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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    We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

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    The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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    Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

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    How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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    Good english’ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

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    Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

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    In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.

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    Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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    Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

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    History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

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    Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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    No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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    Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

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    Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that i am now a walking and talking adult.

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    If i find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that i was made for another world.

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    All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is christ.

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    To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

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    Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

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    I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

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    Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

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    The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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    All get what they want; they do not always like it.

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    Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…

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    A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

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    When we christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making christianity unbelievable to the outside world.

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    If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, i certainly don’t recommend christianity.

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    If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

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    Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

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    When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

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    Faith in christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

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    I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

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    Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

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    If i find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that i was made for another world.

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    If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

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    I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

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    Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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    The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.

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    Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

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    I believe in christianity as i believe that the sun has risen – not only because i see it, but because by it i see everything else.

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    No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

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    We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

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    Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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    The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to christ.

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    Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

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    No good work is done anywhere without aid from the father of lights.

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