The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call ourselves, to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be good. β¨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.180, Simon and Schuster
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- You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well. β¨ C. S. Lewis (2014). Letters to an American Lad β¦ βΆ
- Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifi β¦ βΆ
- What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. β¨ C. S. Lewis (1980). Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, p.259, β¦ βΆ
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