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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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Absence Break Up She Sky Spread Woman
You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Business Door Honesty Inspirational Please True
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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Attend Conscience God Pain Pleasure World
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Allow Experience God Lesson Life Teaching
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Allow Experience God Lesson Life Teaching
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Goodness Inspirational Mistake Necessary One Liner
Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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Deep Describe Explanation Inspirational Life Live
Things never happen the same way twice.
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Break Up Broken Heart Deep Distance One Liner Sad
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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Change God Healing Help Myself Pray
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Broken Heart Burden Depression Heart Hurt Pain Physical
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Happiness Joke Serious Waste Wonder
God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Believe Faith God Religion Want
Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Courtesy Inspirational One Liner Ourseleves Positive Share
I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Change God Positive Pray Religious Trust
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Book Enjoyment Imagination Man Reading
God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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God Happiness Himself Peace Satisfaction
Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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Deliberate Feeling Habit Love Strength Unity
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Beautiful Couple Inspirational Kindness Love Valentine
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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Interruption Life Pleasant Regard Truth Unexpectated
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Collapse Culture Faith Lost Moral Spiritual
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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Boss Evil Greatness Gun Leadership World
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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Change Deep Different Funny Inspirational Life
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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Crying Decide Healing Inspirational Let Go
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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Book Goodness Reading Rule Yourself
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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Believe Coward God Ignorance Incognito Presence
You can make anything by writing.
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Book One Liner Writing
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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Believe Death False Life Truth Value

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