I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
C. S. LEWISLove is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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