I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
C. S. LEWISWhen 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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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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 future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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