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If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world...more

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The ‘doctrines’ we get out of the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already e...more

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Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.

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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of l...more

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I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when ...more

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We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

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I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern children need?” — in other words, with the moral ...more

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The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familia...more

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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

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Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship whi...more

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Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

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Blessed and fortunate creature, your eyes shall behold Him and not another's. All that you are, sins apart, is destined, if you will let God have His ...more

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I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial such ...more

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As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as one who has adopted a few new friends and amuse...more