There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISWe must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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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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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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