Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
C. S. LEWISGod 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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having 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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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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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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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You can make anything by writing.
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