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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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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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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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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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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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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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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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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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We are what we believe we are.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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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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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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