I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
C. S. LEWISIf you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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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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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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