Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
From C. S. Lewis
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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