Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
C. S. LEWISSpiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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