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“We’re Americans,” said Ezekiel. “Nothing is close enough we don’t need a car.”
― Orson Scott Card, Lost and Found

“The refreshments leave something to be desired.” “Like what?” asked Banshee. “Refreshments,” said Ezekiel.”
― Orson Scott Card, Lost and Found

“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“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

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C. S. Lewis

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
― C.S. Lewis

“magnanimousness.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“sanctimonious”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
― Groucho Marx

“The longest way round is the shortest way home”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Progress means not just changing, but changing for the better.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“you could not be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Morality, then, seems to be concerned with three things. Firstly, with fair play and harmony between individuals. Secondly, with what might be called tidying up or harmonising the things inside each individual. Thirdly, with the general purpose of human life as a whole: what man was made for: what course the whole fleet ought to be on: what tune the conductor of the band wants it to play.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“man who makes his golf or his motor-bicycle the centre of his life, or a woman who devotes all her thoughts to clothes or bridge or her dog, is being just as ‘intemperate’ as someone who gets drunk every evening.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“For the longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity