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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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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…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert…
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O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
— William Shakespeare
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents…
— Clifton Fadiman
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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
— Norman Douglas
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents…
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.
— Mark Doty
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Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being…
— Simone Weil
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The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
— Simone Weil
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The order of things consents to virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly…
— C.S. Lewis
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