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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill anim...more

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Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of th...more

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The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is bl...more

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Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and...more

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We are bidden to 'put on Christ', to become like God. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think w...more

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It is not simply that God has arbitrarily made us such that He is our only good. Rather God is the only good of all creatures: and by necessity, each ...more

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His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but n...more

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I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

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One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere prop...more

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If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated. But, as it is, a cultural life will exist outside the Church wh...more

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How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems...more

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...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I hav...more

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[God] sees before Him in fact a self-centred, greedy, grumbling, rebellious human animal. But He says "Let us pretend that this is not a mere creature...more

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For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same exper...more