C. S. Lewis Quote Explained: God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

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There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

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It’s so large” “It’s the world dear, did you think it’d be small?” “smaller

- C. S. Lewis

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Dear

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I know the two great commandments, and I’d better get on with them.

- C. S. Lewis

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Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

- C. S. Lewis

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How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

- C. S. Lewis

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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

- C. S. Lewis

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Desire

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We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

- C. S. Lewis

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Behavior

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The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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Pain

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

It’s so large” “It’s the world dear, did you think it’d be small?” “smaller

I know the two great commandments, and I’d better get on with them.

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. Explain

God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie. Explain

It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me.

I’m free… to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn’t. I can. And my children will.

It’s your thoughts behind the words you speak that create your attitude.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

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