We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
C. S. LEWISGratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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You can make anything by writing.
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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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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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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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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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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