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- At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but…
- Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware…
- Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the…
- For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.
- I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
- Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong…
- 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…
- Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot,…
- Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.
- God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was…
- Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier…
- 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…
- In our adversity, God shouts to us.
- Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
- 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…
- As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he…
- Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met…
- An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a…
- 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.…
- A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
- The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning…
- God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a…
- Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of…
- The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
- Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
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- 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
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong