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101 " I started to see that faith was something akin to understanding that it didn’t matter so much how I felt but was closer to what I believed. "
― Patti Callahan , Becoming Mrs. Lewis
102 " She’d left me and she remained with me. This paradox was as true as anything I’d ever known. "
― Patti Callahan , Surviving Savannah
103 " It wasn’t the addiction for recognition and possessiveness. This was far different—more of a desire to give love than to secure it, more of a simple yearning to be near him and to share his life. His voice and his presence, his smile and his touch. "
104 " Not a change that disrupts, but one that expands. "
105 " In a crack of my soul, during the untethered fear while calling for help, the sneaky Lion saw his chance, and God came in; he entered the fissures of my heart as if he’d been waiting a long time to find an opening. "
106 " It isn’t the work you do or the pleasure you give, it is you, my beloved, that I want. You. "
107 " Surrounded by the ragged warmth of old furniture, stained rugs, and walls made of books, it was like living in a land of stories. "
108 " Sometimes love blooms when a third adversary enters the scene, and what is a more worthy adversary than death? "
109 " It’s not so much any souvenirs we want to take, it’s our hearts we need to carry,” he said. “They yearn for what I call the High Country, and we can’t get there without abandoning the belief that this is all there is, and that we must get the most out of it, and take something with us. "
110 " At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more.When he bares his teeth winter meets its death. Andwhen he shakes his mane we shall have Spring again. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. LEWIS "
111 " You and I both had the same experience as children, that same thrill that nature brings, the knowing that sometimes the world evokes a feeling so full of longing that words can’t capture it. And that longing hints at a place where evil can’t exist and heartbreak can’t abide. "
112 " Grace does not tell us how long we have in our life, or what comes next—that’s why grace is given only in the moment. Unmerited mercy is never earned. "
113 " Eros has naked bodies. Friendship naked personalities "
114 " Isn’t it odd? That we can be happy here and yet want to go . . . there? "
115 " I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. The old life, the jokes, the drinks, the arguments, the lovemaking, the tiny, heartbreaking commonplace. "
116 " Jack stared at me with gentleness. “Maybe you aren’t doubting that God will do the best for you, but wondering how painful the best might be. "
117 " There would be no pretense now, no vanity or prejudice. In this boat they were not mistress and slave but two women intent on survival. "
118 " There I was trying to get over something that I would forever carry. Now the question was: How could I carry it? And "
119 " you can’t get second things by putting them first. "
120 " I couldn’t remember; I could only recall that it was the first time I had understood that everything—my life, my family, the spring evenings with their scent of jasmine and the grand feeling that life was an adventure—would not last. "