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. LEWISTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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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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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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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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