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- You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
- If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with…
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
- I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it…
- The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we…
- To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
- It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
- Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
- One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour.…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the…
- Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular…
- Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
- If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is…
- When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in…
- Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
- Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it…
- A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a…
- The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from…
- Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need…
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