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.
C. S. LEWISThe death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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