Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
C. S. LEWISPain 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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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 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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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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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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