![]() "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean that's the whole art and joy of words.”ġ03. ![]() When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,Īnd when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”ġ02. “Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,Īt the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, "Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.”ġ01. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”ġ00. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”Ħ1. Related: The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 YearsĦ0. "Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”ĥ9. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”ĥ8. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. 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. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. 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. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”ģ0. "I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. ![]() "The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”Ģ9. "Things never happen the same way twice.”Ģ8. "Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”Ģ7. "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.”Ģ6. ![]()
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