It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
C. S. LEWISGod gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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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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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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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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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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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