It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
C. S. LEWISYou must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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