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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If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerablethink of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the samebuilding. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it wasreally surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would becomepessimists the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimisticC.S. Lewis
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself
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Though our feelings come and go, Gods love for us does not.
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The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.
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You can make anything by writing.
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There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.
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