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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

C. S. Lewis

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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Change Growth Hustle Improvement Synthesis
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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Crying Decide Healing Inspirational Let Go
God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Believe Faith God Religion Want
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Empty Enough Finding Gift God Recieve
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Book Goodness Reading Rule Yourself
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Friendship People Share Truth
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
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
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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Interruption Life Pleasant Regard Truth Unexpectated
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Atheist Exist Express God Rage View
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Book Enough Reading Tea
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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Believe God Man Religion Trust
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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Agree Beautiful Forgiveness Peace Practice Sorry
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Arrangement Bad Clever Egg Funny Goodness
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
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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Attempt Broken Heart Conceal Heart Pain Teeth

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