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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than...  
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep...  
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful...  
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable...  
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you g...   Religion
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.  
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily,...  
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite ...  
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue...  
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've rea...  
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when y...  
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man...  
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.  
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ...  
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you...  
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.  
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "Wh...  
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no surv...   Friendship
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because i...  
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? ...  
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is...   Age
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they b...  
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not onl...   Religion
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.  
I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.  
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out t...  
If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who w...  
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because ...  
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wan...  
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look fo...  
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for...  
It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or...  
It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-rea...  
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sig...   Change
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.  
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its ...  
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriche...  
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the wome...  
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which...  
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.  
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that...  
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.  
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.  
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its vic...  
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflectio...  
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of ...  
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a def...  
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' Peopl...  
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minut...   Time
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-a...  
The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-fo...  
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffe...  
The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft unde...  
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irr...  
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done...  
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire...  
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with th...  
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing throug...  
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means ...  
We are what we believe we are  
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.  
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Th...  
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised...  
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewher...  
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.  
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me...  
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.