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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness.

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

Please will you do my job for me.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

The man is a humbug â€” a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys

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

Continue seeking God with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

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