Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
C. S. LEWISGod doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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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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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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