Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
C. S. LEWISFor pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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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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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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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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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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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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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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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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