The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
C. S. LEWISSome day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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