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.
C. S. LEWISIf 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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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You can make anything by writing.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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