"The people with very hard problems are understood……" — C.S. Lewis
"The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not…
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Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing…
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