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

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" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" 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. "

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" What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "