Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
C. S. LEWISGratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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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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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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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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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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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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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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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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