God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C. S. LEWISThe 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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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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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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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