Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...
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Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have re...
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To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in...
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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...
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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...
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One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many b...
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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We are what we believe we are!
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Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.
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Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begi...
