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- If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with…
- When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and…
- Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.
- There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they…
- For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and…
- Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it…
- The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from…
- The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
- It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell…
- A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the…
- If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to…
- All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks…
- Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
- Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being…
- I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
- Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
- Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
- God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the…
- The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash