There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISWe live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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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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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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