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- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
- The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have…
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to…
- Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind…
- If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
- I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
- Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
- To love at all is to be vulnerable.
- A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself…
- When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and…
- There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,…
- All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?…
- My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not…
- The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this…
- All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
- For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the…
- To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
- The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
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