I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
C. S. LEWISWe may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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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 unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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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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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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