“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
— C. S. Lewis
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
“We are what we believe we are.”
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...”
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
“You can make anything by writing.”
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
“Courage, dear heart.”
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.”
“God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.”
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.”
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
“For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”
“When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.”
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”
“If one could run without getting tired I don’t think one would often want to do anything else.”
“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.”
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
“Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
“Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”
“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.”
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
“And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.”
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
“You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.”
“You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.”
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