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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection