It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
C. S. LEWISIt is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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