We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C. S. LEWISGratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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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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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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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