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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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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.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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I seemed to hear God saying, ‘Put down your gun and we’ll talk.’
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
