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- The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on…
- You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out…
- The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired…
- We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.
- Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.
- Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.
- You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
- Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real…
- 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…
- The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
- A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
- Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
- What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes…
- ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of…
- We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is…
- Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have…
- In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the…
- The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is…
- A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a…
- The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us…
- We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.
- Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to…
- The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be…
- An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
- It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong