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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

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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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Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

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I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one f...more

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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Jill had, as you might say, quite fall in love with the Unicorn. She thought- and she wasn't far wrong- that he was the shiningest, delicatest, most g...more

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

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When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but l...more

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...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I hav...more

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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