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Sensibility and wit, shared by some of my favorite wise ones:


“You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.”- St. Augustine


"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself." -St. Augustine


“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves


"What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us." AW Tozer


"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted." CS Lewis


"Surely if he would not spare his own on one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sign, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever he should, after this, deny or withhold from his people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them."-John Flavel


"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less." -C.S. Lewis