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“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.”
― Mae Jemison

“It’s not that God won’t give you more than you can handle, but that God will help you handle all that you’ve been given. This”
― Adam Hamilton, Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn't Say

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.”
― C S Lewis

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed