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

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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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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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Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

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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

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Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, y...more

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At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. ...more

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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and sponta...more

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...more

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The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.