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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#easily #finds #god #i #mortal

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#gradual #hell #hell is #milestones #road

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#eros #friendship #naked #personalities #will

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#great #how #ills #incessant #old

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#day #each #endless #every #fact

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#campaigning #devil #dull #excellent #long

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#meaning #natural #natural order #order #organ

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#joy #pleasures #sometimes #substitutes #whether

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. ↗