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" We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. "
C. S. Lewis
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" Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. "
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" Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. "
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" No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. "
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" We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. "
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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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" If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. "
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" Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. "
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" An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. "
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" How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. "
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" It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. "
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" Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. "
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" The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. "
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" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "
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" Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. "
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" I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading. "
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" Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. "
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" Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. "
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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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" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "
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" Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. "
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" I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. "
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" It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. "
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" Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. "
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" This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. "
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" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "
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" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "
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" The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. "
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