We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
C. S. LEWISYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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You can make anything by writing.
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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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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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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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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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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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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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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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