One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
C. S. LEWISLove is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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.
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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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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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