When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
C. S. LEWISGod 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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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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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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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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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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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