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.
C. S. LEWISGod gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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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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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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