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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

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The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, ...more

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The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a...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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How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at m...more

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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whethe...more

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If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Ap...more

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If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we...more

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring tw...more

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That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

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Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases ...more

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I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like...more

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There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you ...more

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And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale agains...more