Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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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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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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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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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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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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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You can make anything by writing.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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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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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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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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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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