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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" We are what we believe we are. "

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

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

" Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. "

" We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. "

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

" The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. "

" 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. "

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

" Joy is the serious business of Heaven. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. "

" 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. "

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