God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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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 must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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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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