Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.
You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.
For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.
You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.