Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.
Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.
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