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.
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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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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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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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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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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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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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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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