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

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

" Joy is the serious business of Heaven. "

" Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. "

" We are what we believe we are. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' "

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

" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "