“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“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.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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