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Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.
Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.