Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

-- C.S. Lewis

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. Unless, of course, you can literally believe all that stuff about family reunions 'on the further shore,' pictured in entirely earthly terms. But that is all unscriptural, all out of bad hymns and lithographs. There's not a word of it in the Bible. And it rings false. We

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

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