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.
C. S. LEWISHe 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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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 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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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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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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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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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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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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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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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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.
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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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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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