Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
C. S. LEWISPain 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 may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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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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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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