Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
C. S. LEWISNothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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You can make anything by writing.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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