One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
C. S. LEWISLove is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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You can make anything by writing.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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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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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.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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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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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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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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The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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