I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
C. S. LEWISGod wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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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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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.
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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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