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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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 and beyond.
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A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We…
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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