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- My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in…
- The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when…
- The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know…
- You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each…
- There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake…
- Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their…
- If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but…
- The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in…
- God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly…
- If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this…
- The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if…
- We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
- A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we…
- Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my…
- The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm…
- Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our…
- And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will…
- What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these…
- We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the…
- I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we…
- A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has…
- God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.…
- I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's…
- This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the…
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