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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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? "

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

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

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" Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. "

" We are what we believe we are. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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