I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
C. S. LEWISOne of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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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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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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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 greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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