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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. – C.S. Lewis

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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons. – C.S. Lewis

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. – C.S. Lewis

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. – C.S. Lewis

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All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you havent got it. – Eugene Field

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Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels Gods eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. – Alfred A. Montapert

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Joy, Excitement

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow — I have still joy in the midst of all these things. – Confucius

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Joy, Excitement

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternitys sunrise. – William Blake

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Man is only great when he acts from passion. – Benjamin Disraeli

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It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – Edmund Burke

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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. – Mother Teresa

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Never concentrating so hard than when manoeuvring a full cup of tea whilst lying down. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

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