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. LEWISLove is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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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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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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