Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Do something just for you every day which makes you feel good.
Take some me time to do whatever makes you happy, and create the habit of doing this every day.
By looking after your soul, it creates a ripple effect throughout your life, and others will benefit from the refreshed you.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
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.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
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.
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
God will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace."What a curious name!""Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
We are what we believe we are!
Nothing is yet in its true form.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.
For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.
I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.
Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.
We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across to the Lion. "Please," she said, "you're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.
Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.
All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
No people find each other more absurd than lovers
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
Do not dare not to dare.
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [...]
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?
Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.
We believe that the sun is in the sky at midday in summer not because we can clearly see the sun (in fact, we cannot) but because we can see everything else.
it is probably impossible to love any human being simply "too much". We may love him too much in proportion to our love for God; but it is the smallness of our love for God, not the greatness of our love for man, that constitutes the inordinancy. But even this must be refined upon.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
