You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
C. S. LEWISThe term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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 must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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