"All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."
"For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition."
"Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result."
"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."
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him."
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
"To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence."
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."
"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself."
"There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth."
"When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours."
"Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred."
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them."
"Of course a war is entertaining. The immediate fear and suffering of the humans is a legitimate and pleasing refreshment for our myriads of toiling workers."
"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows."
"As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism."
"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."
"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
"Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger — according to the way you react to it."
"Badness is only spoiled goodness."
"God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another."
"God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself."
"The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation."
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"Nothing is yet in its true form."
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
"For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition."
"Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result."
"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."
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him."
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
"To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence."
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."
"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself."
"There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth."
"When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours."
"Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred."
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them."
"Of course a war is entertaining. The immediate fear and suffering of the humans is a legitimate and pleasing refreshment for our myriads of toiling workers."
"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows."
"As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism."
"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."
"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
"Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger — according to the way you react to it."
"Badness is only spoiled goodness."
"God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another."
"God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself."
"The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation."
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"Nothing is yet in its true form."
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
