When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
C. S. LEWISIt is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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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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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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit 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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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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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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