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As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.

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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lo...more

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It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and good...more

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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you re...more

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talk...more

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Authority, reason, experience; on these three, mixed in varying proportions all our knowledge depends.

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When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, “Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.” I wa...more

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It is part of the nature of a strong erotic passion—as distinct from a transient fit of appetite—that makes more towering promises than any other emot...more

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The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian tea...more

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Good and evil both increase at compound interest.