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When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself dislikin...more

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...more

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Love is the great conqueror of lust.

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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because...more

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I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what se...more

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The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.

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I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It i...more

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. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

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I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside and, startled into self-fo...more

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We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

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Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

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We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any...more

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Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases ...more

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For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fig...more