Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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 wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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