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The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.
Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.
This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.