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.
C. S. LEWISTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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