Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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