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.
C. S. LEWISEveryone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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 knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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You can make anything by writing.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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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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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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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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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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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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