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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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Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier tha...more

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[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not tak...more

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But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in one person - then that person ...more

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The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how s...more

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The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thin...more

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The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured. And by the way, that is very important...more

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You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind ...more

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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any ...more

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I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, ‘I’ve no use for all that stuff. But, mind y...more

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The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

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We have two bits of evidence about the Somebody [behind the Moral Law]. One is the universe He has made. If we used that as our only clue, then I thin...more