A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
C. S. LEWISHer absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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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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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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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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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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