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The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in th...more

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Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

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I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slaver...more

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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from th...more

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The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very ofte...more

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to r...more

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Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these n...more

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As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down ...more

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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any ...more

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Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person...more

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. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.