Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
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C.S. Lewis
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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JEFFERSON BETHKE I think there's a certain harsh reality attached to it, you know, the color of money.
HILARY ALEXANDER True power is enlightenment with a dose of harsh reality
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
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The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Harsh reality is always better than false hope.
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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you...
JODI PICOULT If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis...
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A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality
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Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-br...
JEROME K. JEROME The harsh reality of the verdict in the Stewart case, we believe, will enable management and the boa...
DOUGLAS ARTHUR There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.
PRAS MICHEL A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.
AUBREY PLAZA The harsh reality is in many instances they're actually better off on welfare.
DON DRUMMOND Hopefully, some good will come of this. I thought the sentence was a little harsh, but maybe it was ...
GREG PRINGLE
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m...
NEIL GAIMAN
There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.
TRAVIS KALANICK
Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answer...
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BASSAM RHIDA We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
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A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you e...
BILL WALSH The first thing to go is the icing because we don't want to cut staff. It's a harsh reality.
CAROL KYER Sometimes my own darkness scares me.
HEENA RATHORE P.
The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp...
JASPER FFORDE The harsh God of Light will punish you for your sins.
YU WO It's a harsh reality for all of us. If we left it as is, we'd go belly up.
JAMES SCHROEDER
There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different way...
JIM BUTCHER
Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whisper.
I know who you really are. Who wil...
MARIE LU
Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind unio...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK [The physical training was harsh. A seven-day march earned enlistees the right to wear the kepi blan...
JAIME SALAZAR
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the e...
DON DELILLO
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY All the rivers are pretty darn high, and the Lewis water flow was up to 30,000 CFS (cubic feet per s...
JOE HYMER
But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all.
CARRIE RYAN But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfact...
JOE HILL
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most
conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to...
BAYARD RUSKIN That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT This is a harsh reality we have to collectively confront.. Otherwise we shall be caught in a never e...
FESTUS MOGAE
Without goals, your success is simply an illusion, it will not come to reality
SUNDAY ADELAJA Yeah, I got her,” Will confirms.
“Who you got?” I ask.
“You, drunk girl. Come on.�...
KRISTEN PROBY
How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and w...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. You...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER It is a harsh reality in this world that those in power need no justification and beg no excuses.
JEFF WHEELER
Muller was great, but to say this is a shocker is an understatement. This is an unbelievable setback...
JOHN MCENROE
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
HELEN KELLER
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
CHAMFORT
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. -Joe E. Lewis.
JOE E. LEWIS
Come like shadows, so depart!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in thei...
JORGE GARCIA The result of the Ray Lewis case is that the only person to leave this courtroom with a conviction i...
BRUCE HARVEY Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.
JENNIFER HARRISON
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment an...
DAISAKU IKEDA
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.
IRISH PROVERB By embracing our brokenness, we don’t come to Christ's feet occasionally, but we stay at His feet ...
TIFFANY WEBSTER
I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
He is a sports superstar with his feet firmly planted in reality.
TONY HAWK Dad, I’m not at all sure I can follow you any longer in your simple Christian faith’ stated the ...
RUTH BELL GRAHAM Your dream is the most beautiful one but the question is this: Will you have the discipline to make ...
MAXIME LAGACé The whole goal is to have people come out of the shadows and become a recognized part of the work fo...
ILIANA HOLGUIN But you must decide whether you are going to pursue reality and health or to retreat into your fanta...
TALITHA DAY FAIR
And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS It is difficult to acknowledge that mistakes were made in the critical first few hours when the impa...
GEOFF DAVIS
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
UNKNOWN It is very serious and will require some fairly harsh measures to rectify the problem.
JOE NEWTON
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a...
CESARE PAVESE
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest /thought, action /is just a p...
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Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then ...
LINDA KAGE
Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
JOHN DRYDEN
The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The market is convinced we have enough gas. Even if you were to assume a return to normal weather, w...
BRUNO STANZIALE
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
WALT WHITMAN Harsh words are like a boll, it doesn’t stick to the wall, but it will surely leave a mark.
VIKRANT PARSAI I hid myself behind Baba. It was like being in the shadow. Shadows are empty places in things. The c...
BILAL TANWEER They set a double screen and I sent him high. I switched with Shawn and I grabbed Lewis. Shawn did a...
RAJA BELL We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
My main objective is to be professional but to kill him [Lennox Lewis].
MIKE TYSON
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she den...
BEN JONSON
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies y...
BEN JONSON If only they could live in the twilight of their dreams, in the tiny moment before the harsh light o...
D.A. HENNEMAN Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie...
BIBLE
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; yo...
ELISABETH KüBLER-ROSS
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The harsh reality of reduced budgets and the uncertainty of the economic and geopolitical climate ar...
JOE TUCCI
My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his orat...
DAVID HAREWOOD You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . .
Or while away the ...
UFUOMA APOKI Overconfidence will drown you in the sea of reality.
NORAIN
The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would...
OSCAR W. FIRKINS
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d...
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They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, i...
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...
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Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...
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The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...
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Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
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Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...
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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
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I desired dragons with a profound desire.
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What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
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But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
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Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
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People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
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You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
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All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
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A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
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What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
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Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
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“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
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Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
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I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
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