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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

C. S. Lewis

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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Believe Coward God Ignorance Incognito Presence
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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Book Habit Imagination Interest Writing
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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Crying Decide Healing Inspirational Let Go
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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Forgiveness God Guilty Ourselves Religion
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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Absence Break Up She Sky Spread Woman
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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Attempt Broken Heart Conceal Heart Pain Teeth
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.
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Deal Future Inspirational Live Lose World
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Broken Heart Heart Love Possible Vulnerable
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Broken Heart Deep Disappointment Forgiveness Ideas Thinking
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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Atheist Finding God Religion Universe
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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FAction Friendship Live Meditation Solitude World
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Book Enough Reading Tea
I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Change God Positive Pray Religious Trust
She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Expression Humour Hunt Live She Woman
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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Earth FAction Heart Heaven Home Proof
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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Affection Feeling Goodness Love Obtain Steady

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