The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning. C.s. Lewis
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  1. I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin. - Edmond De Goncourt

  2. Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of society, women begin to feel they are living invisibly. - Anonymous

  3. If it causes you to sin your soul-just walk away - Charmaine J. Forde

  4. The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated. - Victor Hugo

  5. Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God–a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image. - Praying Medic

More Quotes By C.s. Lewis
  1. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with...

  2. Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

  3. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

  4. The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

  5. If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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