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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.

C. S. Lewis

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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Hurt Learning Sad Silence Speak Truth
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Fear Gratitude Love Lust Past Present
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Cease Forgiveness Love Remove Spite
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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Coward Eyes FAction People Shut Truth
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Common Sense Contentment Love Possible Pride Spiritual
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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Attend Conscience God Pain Pleasure World
God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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God Happiness Himself Peace Satisfaction
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Broken Heart Feeling Heart Hurt Pain Silence
Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Experience Healing Judgement Life Man Struggle
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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Dirty God Notice Presence Religion
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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Deal Future Inspirational Live Lose World
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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Forgiveness God Guilty Ourselves Religion
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Friendship People Share Truth
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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Boss Evil Greatness Gun Leadership World
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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Interruption Life Pleasant Regard Truth Unexpectated
Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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Deep Describe Explanation Inspirational Life Live

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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