“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.”
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“In my end is my beginning.”
― Four Quartets
― Four Quartets
“Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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