When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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