God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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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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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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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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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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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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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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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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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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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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