It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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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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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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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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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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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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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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