“It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.”
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“If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.”
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“Be thou glad sleeper and thy sorrow offcast. I am the gate to all good adventure.”
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“Who are you?” asked Shasta.
“Myself,” said the Voice, very deep and low so that the earth shook: and again “Myself,” loud and clear and gay: and then the third time “Myself,” whispered so softly you could hardly hear it, and yet it seemed to come from all around you as if the leaves rustled with it.”
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“if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.”
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“The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.”
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C.S. Lewis
“Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.”
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“Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.”
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“Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.”
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“She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.”
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“Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.”
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“In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.”
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“You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.”
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“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
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C.S. Lewis
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
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