Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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You can make anything by writing.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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