God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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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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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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