Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. LEWISA young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice 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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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