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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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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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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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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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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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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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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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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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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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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