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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

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Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct.

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...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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What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet is has happened every day. One goes into the fo...more

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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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?

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Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly be...more

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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for G...more

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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.

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you beli...more

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Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...more

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The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.

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I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were really people like you. Yet there you are.