Below are the best resources we could find featuring c s lewis about fellowship and community.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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We read to know we are not alone.
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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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