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.
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.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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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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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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