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.
C. S. LEWISWe meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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