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The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

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Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I...more

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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of whi...more

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...more

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Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are ...more

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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

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Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

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Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gen...more

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destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which t...more

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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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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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But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference...more