You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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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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