brought an unbending authoritarian state into every home
. By sticking with zero-covid despite the effects on the economy, he has cast doubt on one of the party’s chief claims to power—that only it can guarantee stability and prosperity. .......... In the best scenario China will experience an exit wave of deaths and disease, and economic disruption........ whether the system of surveillance and control that the party has laboured to create is able to withstand mass dissent. ........ During his first ten years in power Mr Xi exerted increasing control over politics and the economy without paying a price. Covid throws all of that into doubt.Narendra Modi is about to fulfil a core promise to Hindus But building a temple at Ayodhya is easier than building an economy ...... Ayodhya, a town on a tributary of the Ganges, is believed to have been the birthplace,
7,000 years ago
, of Lord Ram ........ The temple, which is being paid for with public and private money, is scheduled to open in early 2024, a few months before India’s next general election. A vast monument constructed in marble, sandstone and teak, it will contain three storeys and 392 pillars. ...... Locals complain that the town lacks basic services such as clean water, medical facilities and garbage disposal.Xi Jinping’s zero-covid policy has turned a health crisis into a political one Caught between raging disease and unpopular and costly lockdowns, he has no good fix .......... China invented covid-19 lockdowns.
Massive Russian terrorist attacks on Ukraine happening right now
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“Christianity, if false, is of no importance and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” - C.S. Lewis
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“When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.” - C.S. Lewis
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“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” - C.S. Lewis
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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” - C.S. Lewis
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“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.” - C.S. Lewis
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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C. S. Lewis
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” - C.S. Lewis
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Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
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‘To love is to be vulnerable.’
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C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, 1960
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“You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.” - C.S. Lewis
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” - C.S. Lewis
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“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” - C.S. Lewis
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“To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.” - C.S. Lewis
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“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” - C.S. Lewis
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“Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’” - C.S. Lewis
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“The enemy will not see you vanish into God’s company without an effort to reclaim you.” ~C.S. Lewis
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“If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?” - C.S. Lewis
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“The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.” - C.S. Lewis
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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C. S. Lewis
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
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― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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C. S. Lewis
Without George MacDonald, we may not have had C.S. Lewis. https://t.co/Allo34shvY
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) November 25, 2022
The Man Who Inspired C.S. Lewis Without George MacDonald, we may not have had C.S. Lewis. ........ Clive Staples Lewis ...... The discovery of George MacDonald was the catalyst that began a chain of events in Lewis’s life that eventually led him out of atheism and into Christianity. ....... It might seem strange that fantasy could lead a man to God, but Lewis writes that MacDonald’s fantastical realms acted to “convert, even to baptize my imagination”. As Lewis read more of MacDonald’s work, he began to understand that “new quality” he could never quite put a finger on wasn’t separate from MacDonald’s faith, but rather was an essential part of it......... Fantasy literature has the unique ability to take a real-world concept and divorce it from its familiar moorings. Real wars become imaginary quests. The lust for power takes the form of an irresistible magical ring. Human greed becomes a dragon. And so readers can learn about the most incredibly complex, beautiful, or frightening shades of humanity without every truly realizing it. ........... Consider the parables of Christ—stories that convey truth about the nature of God through stories about the natural world. .......... Fantasy is just as capable of illustrating the mystery and beauty of God and what lies beyond death, but it does so by arresting our attention with stories of the fantastic rather than the natural. .......... Unable to resist these new ideas about the divine, C.S. Lewis finally capitulated in 1929, when
he knelt and accepted God as God
. Within a few years of his conversion, Lewis published “The Pilgrim’s Regress,” the first a 30-year stream of Christian apologetics works. ........... MacDonald was a man fascinated with God’s ability to love. .......... between 1851 and 1897, MacDonald authored over 50 books across a variety of genres—novels, sermons, essays, fairy tales, and plays ........ he felt that ornate ceremony and rote rituals just got in between mankind and a personal encounter with God. ........ he believed that the Christian Church was not the only thing that revealed God, but rather that all creation reveals God all the time, that there is divine mystery inherent to everything. ............“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
.10 Awesome Facts About the Bible The Good Book is always captivating. ........ around 2.5 billion copies were printed between 1815 and 1975 ....... "Christianity is the world's largest religion, with an estimated 2.2 billion adherents, nearly a third (31 percent) of all 6.9 billion people on Earth." ....... The Bible is available in 426 languages and the New Testament is available in 1,115 languages, but there is more work to be done according to christianresearch.org. There are "Over 4,500 languages still wait for even one book of the Bible. This means millions either have no access to the Bible at all or can only encounter it in something other than their heart language." .