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.
C. S. LEWISEveryone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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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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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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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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