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That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

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But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary...more

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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, un...more

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...Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently ...more

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Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have g...more

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But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few mo...more

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Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

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There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." A...more

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I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that t...more

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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till no...more

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The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we a...more

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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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Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes to my aid. Thos...more

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We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our...more