“God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.”
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“We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.”
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“But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.”
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“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”
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“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”
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“By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!”
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“He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.”
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“Though under earth, and throneless now I be
Yet while I lived all earth was under me.”
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“Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.”
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“Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.”
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“You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.”
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“Here at last is the thing I was made for.”
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“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
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“The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.”
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“Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad.”
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