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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."

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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

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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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You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turnin...more

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No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conf...more

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The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

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That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.

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... A few centuries earlier... humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and if it was proved they really believed it...more

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As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance... Wallow in it... Write a book abou...more

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The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.