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.
C. S. LEWISEveryone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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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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