Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
C. S. LewisI wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.
C. S. LewisBesides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
C. S. LewisFirst, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
C. S. LewisIf you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
C. S. LewisThe command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.
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