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Joy is the serious business of heaven.
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Free will though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
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You are never too old to have a new aim or see a new dream.
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
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Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.
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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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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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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.
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Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now
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The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.
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The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.