As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. β¨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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- Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.
- Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. β¨ C. S. Lewis (2013). Selected Literary Essays, p.105, Cambridge Univ β¦ βΆ
- There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. β¨ C. S. Lewis (2014). Christian Reflections, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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