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- There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and…
- It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our…
- If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often…
- God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the…
- Much is expected from those to whom much is given.
- Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
- There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old,…
- Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms,…
- If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can…
- In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us…
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath…
- Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.
- I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse…
- Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable…
- The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
- If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
- A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and…
- I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were…
- Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...
- Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from…
- The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched…
- Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to…
- Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life…
- You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the…
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