Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.
C. S. LewisDo you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.
C. S. LewisAlas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
C. S. LewisThe road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.
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