Irish - Author | November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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