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- Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
- Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
- There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We…
- Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back…
- Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
- You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.
- The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
- Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of…
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like…
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness…
- When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained…
- I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head…
- The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next…
- Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the…
- I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at…
- It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
- When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
- You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
- 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…
- If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals
- The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
- I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been…
- 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…
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- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
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- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
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- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. — Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba