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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

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It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this...more

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

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We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more

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If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

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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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The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whicheve...more

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But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference...more

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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then ma...more

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At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. ...more

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The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

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We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.