We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C. S. LEWISThere are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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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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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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