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“You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”
― My Life in France
― My Life in France
“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
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“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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