Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. LEWISI 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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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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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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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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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