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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.

C. S. Lewis

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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Confidence God Learning Love Marriage Valentine
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Book Enough Fairy Tales Old One Liner
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Broken Heart Burden Depression Heart Hurt Pain Physical
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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Believe Faith God Life People Problem
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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Art Friendship Philosophy Survival Unnecessary Value
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Cease Forgiveness Love Remove Spite
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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God Man People Proud Wisdom
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Arrangement Bad Clever Egg Funny Goodness
If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Break Up Broken Heart Couple Hurt Love Worth
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Attend Conscience God Pain Pleasure World
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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Allow Experience God Lesson Life Teaching
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Evil Fight Finding Motivational Strength Try
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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Boss Evil Greatness Gun Leadership World
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Friendship People Share Truth
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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Dirty God Notice Presence Religion
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.
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Deliberate Feeling Habit Love Strength Unity

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