A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
C. S. LEWISIf we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another 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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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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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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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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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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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