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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.
We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.
Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.
It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.
Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.
If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.
Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'