And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.
("The Silver Chair")
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.C.S. Lewis
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
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To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin
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All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.
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