I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.
C. S. LewisIf we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
C. S. LewisIt is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crรจme de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.
C. S. LewisGod allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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