To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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.
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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.'
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
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.
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
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