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

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

" We are what we believe we are. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' "

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

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

" The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

" Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. "

" 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. "

" Joy is the serious business of Heaven. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. "

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

" 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. "

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

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