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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

C. S. Lewis

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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Atheist Finding God Religion Universe
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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Deliberate Feeling Habit Love Strength Unity
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Friendship People Share Truth
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Life Live One Liner Ordinary People Special
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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Break Up Experience Humour Inspirational Let Go Pain
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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Art Friendship Philosophy Survival Unnecessary Value
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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God Man People Proud Wisdom
Pain 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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Attend Conscience God Pain Pleasure World
She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Expression Humour Hunt Live She Woman
You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Business Door Honesty Inspirational Please True
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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Allow Experience God Lesson Life Teaching
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Character Goodness Inspirational Integrity One Liner Watch
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Finding Lying Strength Try Walk Wind
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Alone Bed Funny Habit Peace Sleep
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Collapse Culture Faith Lost Moral Spiritual
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Love Value Waste

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