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.
C. S. LEWISLove 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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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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It 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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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