It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird — it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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"Love…is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself."

- C. S. Lewis

Love

"God’s love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him."

- C. S. Lewis

Love

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

- C. S. Lewis

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"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

- C. S. Lewis

Awareness

"I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers."

- C. S. Lewis

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"Love has the power to transform even the most hideous of creatures."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

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"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

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"Today is not just Tuesday, it is Transformation Tuesday. That means that success does not just come to you, you have to go out and get it. So what are you waiting for?"

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