We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. LEWISGod 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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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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 can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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