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- The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the…
- A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of…
- You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
- If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
- Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who…
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
- 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…
- Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
- After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only,…
- 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…
- If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely,…
- I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.
- We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to…
- I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
- It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our…
- In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church
- As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is…
- Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not…
- The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,…
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- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey