When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
C. S. LEWISIf you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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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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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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