God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C. S. LEWISMere 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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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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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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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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 never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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