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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

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"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."

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"We read to know that we are not alone."

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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. 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."

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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

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"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

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"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

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"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

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"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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"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

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"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me."

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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

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"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."

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"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

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"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."

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"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."

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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

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"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

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"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

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"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

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"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn."

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"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."

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"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."

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"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. "

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"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

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"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

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