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- Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
- I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
- You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is…
- Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we…
- Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's…
- Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be…
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
- Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot,…
- And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at…
- For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the…
- Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber…
- I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum…
- I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor…
- The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth,…
- The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman…
- It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he…
- Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.…
- A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes…
- In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
- Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left…
- God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a…
- Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a…
- A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by…
- For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going…
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