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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 is invalid.
- We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
- We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself.…
- In worship, God imparts himself to us.
- God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of…
- 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…
- 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…
- The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible…
- You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
- There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this…
- The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
- The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we…
- He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
- The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
- Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt…
- If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
- Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle