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Adversity Years

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

- C. S. Lewis

Quote of the Day

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

- Ben Vereen

Other quotes by C. S. Lewis

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

- C. S. Lewis

Day Fact Thinking

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

- C. S. Lewis

Earth Will

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

- C. S. Lewis

Cause

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

- C. S. Lewis

Earth

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

- C. S. Lewis

Infinite Words Want

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

- C. S. Lewis

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