We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
C. S. LewisI#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
C. S. LewisIf we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?
C. S. LewisI sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
C. S. LewisThe Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.
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