“You will never know how much you believe something until it is a matter of life and death.” “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.”
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
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.
“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are.”
“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.”
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained”
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”
“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.”
“There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan”
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind”
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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