There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LEWISGod wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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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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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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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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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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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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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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