One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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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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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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You can make anything by writing.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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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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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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