You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. β¨ C. S. Lewis (2009). Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis, p.9, HarperCollins UK
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- Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. β¨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.
- Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. β¨ C. S. Lew β¦ βΆ
- Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be β¦ βΆ
- True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
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