Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. LEWISWe all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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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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