He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
C. S. LEWISGratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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