February 2012
12 posts
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The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be...
– The Weight of Glory (1942)
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Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that’s all the life we have...
– Till We Have Faces (1956)
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God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of...
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also...
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet...
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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We must go on to recognize the real Giver. It is madness not to. Because, if we...
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down...
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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Love is the great conqueror of lust. Being in love is far better than either...
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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The real trouble is that ‘kindness’ is a quality fatally easy to...
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so...
– Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
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For me, reason is the natural organ of truth, but imagination is the organ of...
– Rehabilitations (1939)
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All loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that [Hell] contains, if...
– The Great Divorce (1945)