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A World of Quotes

“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”  

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

--C.S. Lewis

 

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.

--C.S. Lewis

  For attractive lips,

speak words of kindness.

  For lovely eyes,

seek out the good in people.

For poise,

walk with the knowledge

that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be

 

restored,

   renewed,

                  revived,

            reclaimed,

                                      and redeemed;

never throw out anyone.

-Audrey Hepburn

"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."

--C.S. Lewis

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