We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
C. S. LEWISWhen we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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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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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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You can make anything by writing.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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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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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 is really ours until we share it.
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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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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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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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