Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
From C. S. Lewis
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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.'
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
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