Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.
C. S. LewisIsn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
C. S. LewisWe live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. LewisI pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
C. S. LewisLove...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.
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