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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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Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.
— Catherine of Genoa
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Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a…
— Thomas Merton
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Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given…
— E. Stanley Jones
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
— Jean Paul
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Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off…
— C.S. Lewis
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And eventually, the choosing becomes easier, the darkness lifts, and walking in Jesus' way is not quite such a strugglefor a while.…
— Unknown Author
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When you find that weariness depresses or amusement distracts you, you will calmly turn with an untroubled spirit to your Heavenly Father,…
— Francois Fenelon
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We all suffer for each other, and gain by each other's suffering; for man never stands alone here, though he will stand…
— Unknown Author
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It is not repentance that saves me; repentance is the sign that I realise what God has done in Christ Jesus.
— Oswald Chambers
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Who receives, should thank; who gives, should be silent.
— German Proverb
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