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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talk...more

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The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of o...more

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If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of chil...more

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For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same exper...more

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "...more

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And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenl...more

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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and there...more

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You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for...more

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An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood ...more

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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course th...more

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We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any...more

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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...