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 Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. We all want progress, but if you`re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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We read to know we are not alone.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you`re looking down, you can`t see something that`s above you.
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Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
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There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man’s reaction to monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;` but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
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You don`t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ``Blessed are they that mourn.``
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person`s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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What can you ever really know of other people`s souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands
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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country
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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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When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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We`re not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
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Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.
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This moment contains all moments.
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The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.
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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain
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The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
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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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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
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Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, `Thy will be done,` and those to whom God says, in the end, `Thy will be done.`
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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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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Don`t use words too big for the subject. Don`t say `infinitely` when you mean `very`; otherwise you`ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron`s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn`t matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn`t matter.
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as `what a man does with his solitude.`
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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A man can no more diminish God`s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word `darkness` on the walls of his cell.
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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It`s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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