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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.'

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is sinc...more

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

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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

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To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in...more

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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We are what we believe we are!

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Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

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Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begi...more

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Nothing is yet in its true form.

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful th...more

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In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in ...more

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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have tho...more

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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.