I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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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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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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