Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
C. S. LEWISHer absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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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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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.
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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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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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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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