The faint, far-off results of those energies which God's creative rapture implanted in matter when He made the worlds are what we now call physical pleasures and even thus filtered, they are too much for our present management. What would it be to taste at the fountainhead of that stream of which even these lower reaches prove so intoxicating Yet that, I believe, is what lies before us. As St. Augustine said, the rapture of the saved soul will 'flow over' into the glorified body. In the light of our present specialized and depraved appetites, we cannot imagine this torrent of pleasure, and I warn everyone most seriously not to try. But it must be mentioned, to drive out thoughts even more misleading thoughts that what is saved is a mere ghost, or that the risen body lives in numb insensibility. The body is made for the Lord, and these dismal fancies are wide of the mark. (Clive Staples
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket safe, dark, motionless, airless it will change. It will not be broken it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. (Clive StaplesJack) Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another 'What You, too I thought I was the only one.' (Clive Staples
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This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a great rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life. (Clive Staples
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What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing it also depends on what sort of person you are. (Clive Staples
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She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. (Clive Staples
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I sometimes think that writing is like driving sheep down a road. If there is any gate to the left or right, the readers will most certainly go into it. (Clive Staples
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