Ifs Quotes (page 205)
![Enid Bagnold quote: "If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about..."](/pic/315434/600x316/quotation-enid-bagnold-if-i-had-my-life-over-again-id-have-thought.jpg)
![Sydney Smith quote: "If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It..."](/pic/315327/600x316/quotation-sydney-smith-if-i-were-to-begin-life-again-i-would-devote-it.jpg)
If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe -no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside us as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way. And that's just what we do find inside us.
C. S. Lewis
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If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be...
C. S. Lewis
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