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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home," why should we not look forward to the arrival?

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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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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 since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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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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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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We are what we believe we are.

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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