Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
("The Screwtape Letters")
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There is but one good that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.C.S. Lewis
An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.
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To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.
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Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
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If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world
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