You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
C. S. LEWISMere 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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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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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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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 can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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