God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
C. S. LEWISThere is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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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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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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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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