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Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.

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It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this...more

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more

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If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

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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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The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whicheve...more

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Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.

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Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

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I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the good will and honesty of my be...more

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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then ma...more

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I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one f...more