Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. β¨ The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics.
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- The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. β¨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
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