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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is sinc...more

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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

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I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slaver...more

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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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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.

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Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

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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 r...more

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Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these n...more

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Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

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And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles.

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You would like to know how I behave when I am experiencing pain, not writing books about it. You need not guess, for I will tell you; I am a great cow...more

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... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.

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[But] we inherit a whole system of desires which do not necessarily contribute God's will but which, after centuries of usurped autonomy steadfastly i...more