A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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We are what we believe we are.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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