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“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
C.S. Lewis
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll
“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later and then you still have to decide what to do.”
“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others”
