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“The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Inspirational #School #People
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Forgiveness #God #Christian
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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.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#God #Faith #Believe
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“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Love #Religious #Secret
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“[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Strong #Philosophy #Boys
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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#God #Christian #Thinking
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“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Perfect #Church #Would Be
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“Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Gone #World #Made
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“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Sympathy #Regret #Fear
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“To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Mean #Advice #Trying
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“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Country #Desire #Alive
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“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Cost #Dangerous #Impulse
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“God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Perseverance #Hard Times #What Matters
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“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Heart #Home #Heaven
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“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Yoga #Soul #Body
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“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Men #Religion #Done
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“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Blessed #Blessing #Christian Inspirational
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“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
-- C. S. Lewis
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“When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Love #Marriage #Valentines Day
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Love #Inspirational #Heart
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“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Art #Taken #Mean
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“The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Real #Dirty #Tests
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“My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Mean #Son #Jewels
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“Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Heart #Sleep #Dragons
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“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Kindness #Love Is #Christianity
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“Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Life #Happiness #May
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“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Inspirational #Change #Inspiring
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“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Giving Up #Real #New Beginnings
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“God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#Christian #Men #Community
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“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
-- C. S. Lewis
#God #Christian Inspirational #Feelings
