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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert…
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
— John Ortberg
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I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be,…
— Laura Schlessinger
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Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.
— Mike Bickle
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There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of…
— John Ortberg
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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
— Lily Tomlin
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Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and…
— Francis Chan
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Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.
— Timothy Keller
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Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
— Timothy Keller
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Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances…
— Benjamin Hoff
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What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.
— Charles Bukowski
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