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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

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All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

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and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord really intends for me may be utterly unlike the th...more

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We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty m...more

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Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: a...more

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: a...more

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: a...more

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: a...more

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I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when ...more

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Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the so...more

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We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

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I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern children need?” — in other words, with the moral ...more

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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

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Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship whi...more