Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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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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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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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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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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