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Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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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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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.

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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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Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct.

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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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Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.

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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