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" Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. "

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" This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. "

" With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. "

" History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. "

" Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. "

" Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. "

" If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. "

" Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones. "

" Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. "

" Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. "

" I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. "

" Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. "

" 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. "

" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "

" Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. "

" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "

" We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. "

" Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. "

" We are what we believe we are. "

" I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. "

" I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading. "

" Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. "

" It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. "

" There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. "

" I gave in, and admitted that God was God. "

" There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' "

" The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. "

" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "

" Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. "