There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.
By: C. S. Lewis
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the miserys shadow or reflection: the fact that you dont merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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You cant get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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The Lion all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, Lets try to make a story about it.
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