One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
C. S. LEWISIn such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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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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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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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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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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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 live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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