When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
C. S. LewisWhat flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.
C. S. LewisNot my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the prรฉcis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.
C. S. LewisTo be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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