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“The voice of nature is an echo of the voice of God drawing us toward our true home. Earthly beauty is not to be shunned as a temptation but enjoyed as a first glimpse of the unbounded heavenly delights that await us in God's true country.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There

“Good knows evil, but evil knows neither good nor itself.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There

“Doing the hard thing even at the expense of comfort and immediate happiness does not make the Christian life one of perpetual misery. In following God through difficulty, we find real joy instead of its superficial substitute, happiness.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There

“Joy comes from knowing you are in the hands of a loving God who wills your ultimate good whatever the circumstance of the moment.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“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.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“I read way too much given all I want to do every day, and I only recommend books I really like.”
― Gary Lincoff

“Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”
― Dean Koontz

“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
― Dean Koontz, Innocence

“To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

“When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.”
― Philip Yancey

“Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.”
― Ben Franklin

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I say to you all, once again -- in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire