You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
C. S. LewisYes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
C. S. LewisThere ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
C. S. LewisWhatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.
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