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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.
Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.
No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
Take spring when it comes and rejoice. Take happiness when it comes and rejoice. Take love when it comes and rejoice.
Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.
I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.
As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.