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The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.

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I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals ...more

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Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gen...more

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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, ...more

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And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own p...more

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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a...more

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talk...more

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Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as the giver, of her as the gift. Don’t we in prais...more

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How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at m...more

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Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

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If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Ap...more

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To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest...more

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If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we...more

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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