In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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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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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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.
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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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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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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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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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