“People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.”
― C is for Corpse
― C is for Corpse
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
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“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“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?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“He who knew how to live should know how to die.”
― Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero – Henryk Sienkiewicz's Historical Epic
― Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero – Henryk Sienkiewicz's Historical Epic
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