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""But the longer they'd interacted, the more each side had recognized the ordinary nature of the other. Myths became men. And every society knew how to kill other men."" — Jan 10, 2026 07:28AM
""But the longer they'd interacted, the more each side had recognized the ordinary nature of the other. Myths became men. And every society knew how to kill other men."" — Jan 10, 2026 07:28AM
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
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“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.
When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.”
― The Mad Farmer Poems
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.
When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.”
― The Mad Farmer Poems
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
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