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There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lo...more

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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me,...more

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Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

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My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you re...more

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For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles...more

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talk...more

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Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with ser...more

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[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not tak...more

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When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they n...more

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Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

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And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenl...more

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Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of the mar...more

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Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your...more

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Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moo...more