God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
C. S. LEWISWe meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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You can make anything by writing.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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