A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. LEWISGod doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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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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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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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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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.
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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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