Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. LEWISEating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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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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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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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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