We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. LEWISLove is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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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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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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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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