Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. LEWISYou never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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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.
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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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The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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