If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
C. S. LEWISNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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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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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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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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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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You can make anything by writing.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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