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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. "

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

" Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. "

" Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. "

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

" 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. "

" Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. "

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

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

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

" How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. "

" Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite. "

" An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. "

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

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

" We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. "

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

" Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. "

" Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. "

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" We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. "

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" Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. "