Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
C. S. LEWISLove is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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.
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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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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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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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