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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.

C. S. Lewis

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Change God Positive Pray Religious Trust
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Book Goodness Reading Rule Yourself
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Arrangement Bad Clever Egg Funny Goodness
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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Art Friendship Philosophy Survival Unnecessary Value
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Destiny Extraordinary Motivational Person Prepare Work Hard
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Inspirational Letter Miracle Trust World
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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FAction Friendship Live Meditation Solitude World
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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Affection Feeling Goodness Love Obtain Steady
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Fear Gratitude Love Lust Past Present
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Broken Heart Burden Depression Heart Hurt Pain Physical
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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Earth FAction Heart Heaven Home Proof
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Common Sense Contentment Love Possible Pride Spiritual
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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Dedication Future Life Motivational Success Time
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Book Enough Reading Tea
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Friendship People Share Truth
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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Believe Death False Life Truth Value

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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