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.
C. S. LEWISWe never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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