The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
C. S. LEWISCourage 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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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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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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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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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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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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