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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till no...more

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Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have...more

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Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

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The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is bl...more

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The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we a...more

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Blessed and fortunate creature, your eyes shall behold Him and not another's. All that you are, sins apart, is destined, if you will let God have His ...more

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of...more

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Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes to my aid. Thos...more

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We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our...more

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In a sense, [Christianity] creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experien...more

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I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial such ...more

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A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

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As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as one who has adopted a few new friends and amuse...more

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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think t...more