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

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" Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. "

" 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. "

" Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. "

" Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. "

" The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. "

" If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. "

" 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. "

" No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. "

" Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. "

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

" The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. "

" 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. "

" Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. "

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

" You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. "

" If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. "

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

" Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? "

" It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. "

" Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. "

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" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "

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

" Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. "

" When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. "

" Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. "

" Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. "

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