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Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.


C.S. Lewis

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ANNIE DILLARD We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will...
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BERTRAND RUSSELL Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than t...
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DAVID M. PATON They can turn a 5-yard hitch into a 40-yard gain,
MICHAEL ROBINSON Yet, every time I find myself,I seem to gain a little each time.
CHELSEA R. BLUES We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Ideas can turn maximum success if only we can take time & imagination to cross the T's & dot the i's
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HORACE MANN Life is what you make of it…if you stumble, pick yourself back up, if you fail turn it into a step...
N. S. COLE Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
ZACHARIA You can put all the scrutiny in there you want--people will still find a way around it. We need ever...
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THOMAS MERTON Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
LEWIS CARROLL There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.
KARL G. MAESER Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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FISHER AMES If the barriers of society did not exist, a disability would not be a disability.
DONNA FORREST If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER It can be done. If I can get Lewis in, I can probably wrangle Clark in, too.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every...
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CRAIG STEVENSON We nipped right there at it every week. This will help turn it around.
GREG WILLIAMS If we can put the ball in the basket, we can gain some confidence.
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LEWIS CARROLL Every person with a disability is an individual.
ITZHAK PERLMAN If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
P. J. O'ROURKE If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Every team goes through things like this. We know we can turn it around.
GARTH SNOW Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. ...
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MARTIN LUTHER If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is...
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C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire.
C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C.S. LEWIS 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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