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Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that...more

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In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made o...more

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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may ...more

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I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions d...more

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Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

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It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this...more

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more

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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then ma...more

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We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

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The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

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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...more

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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.