God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
C. S. LEWISDo not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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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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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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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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