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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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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...more

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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line c...more

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Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

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When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but l...more

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...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I hav...more

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As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.

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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lo...more

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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

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The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does no...more