Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
C. S. LEWISGod can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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