It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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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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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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If 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 may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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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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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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