You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
C. S. LEWISGod doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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