It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to … - C. S. Lewis

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The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

C. S. Lewis

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

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You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

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Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

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