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When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.
Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.
But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.
There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.