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Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

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The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

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Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I...more

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Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are ...more

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Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

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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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The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whicheve...more

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But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference...more

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At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. ...more

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The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

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

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Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such ...more

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If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real g...more

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On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean nothing by calling Him good; for to ...more