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- Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation…
- when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least…
- I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror…
- If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for…
- There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in…
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
- Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty…
- I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
- Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
- Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom…
- Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than…
- But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even…
- When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door.…
- No people find each other more absurd than lovers
- If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked…
- Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition…
- Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it…
- I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and…
- In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting…
- we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for…
- Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.…
- Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
- A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
- Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental…
- 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…
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