There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISLife with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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