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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is sinc...more

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All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

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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...more

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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.

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and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord really intends for me may be utterly unlike the th...more

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: a...more

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: a...more

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: a...more

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: a...more

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It is mere nonsense to put pain among the discoveries of science. Lay down this book and reflect for five minutes on the fact that all the great relig...more

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Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you....more

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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 o...more