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.
C. S. LEWISForgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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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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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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