For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
C. S. LEWISMiracles 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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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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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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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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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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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