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This book offers a series of daily readings that draw upon the wisdom of C. S. Lewis, exploring themes related to business and ethical decision-making. Each entry is designed to provide thought-provoking content for readers interested in the intersection of faith and professional life.
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“Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.”
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“What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.”
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“Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.”
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.”
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“When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.”
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“The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.”
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“I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.”
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“A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.”
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“When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.”
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“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
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“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
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“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.”
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“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”
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“But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.”
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“Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
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“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
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“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.”
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“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
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“When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over”
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“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.”
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“Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.”
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“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”
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“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.”
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“No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.”
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“Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.”
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“If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?”
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“A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.”
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“Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?”
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“And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.”
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“No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'”
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“To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.”
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“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”
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“Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.”
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“We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.”
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“We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.”
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“Imagine yourself as a living house.”
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“We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.”
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“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.”
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“Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.”
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“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”
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“Much is expected from those to whom much is given.”
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“The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.”
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“There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.”
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“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
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“If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.”
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“The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'”
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“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.”
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“There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view; there’s none if we pretend it’s not there.”
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“We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.”
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“Women sometimes have the problem of trying to judge by artificial light how a dress will look by daylight. That is very like the problem of all of us: to dress our souls not for the electric lights of the present world but for the daylight of the next. The good dress is the one that will face that light. For that light will last longer.”
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