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1. ..."It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms; but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer. He will have us even though we've shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is 'nothing better' left to be had."
2. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
3. "The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God."
4. "The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."
5. "The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one."
6. "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."
7. "According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride."
8. "Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not subject myself to punishment----even to death. If you had committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged."
9. "All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery."
10. "Love is the great conqueror of lust."
11. "The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union."
12. "Virtue---even attempted virtue---brings light; indulgence brings fog."
13. "Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again."
14. "Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues."
15. "When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
16. "Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that."
17. "Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever."
18. "You cannot make men good by law."
19. "In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine...When you are being taught how to use any machine, the instructor keeps on saying, 'No, don't do it like that,' because, of course, there are all sorts of things that look all right and seem to you the natural way of treating the machine, but do not really work."
20. "Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms."
21. "A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it."
22. "The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk."
23. "God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong; I cannot. If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
24. "Enemy-occupied territory-----that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign in sabotage."
25. "You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will."
26. "The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other. But the standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."
27. "These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in."
28. "Selfishness has never been admired."
29. "When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others---not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one."
30. "It is simple religions that are the made-up ones."
31. "I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
32. "Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop."
33. "A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world---and might be even more difficult to save."
34. "I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers."
35. "We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin."
36. "Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved."
37. "Forgiveness does not mean excusing."
38. "The claim to equality is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."
39. "If the thing happened, it was the central event in the history of the earth."
40. "To love is to be vulnerable."
41. "There is nothing progressive about being pig headed and refusing to admit a mistake."
42. "God did entrust the descendants of Abraham with the first revelation of Himself."
43. "Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'"
44. "The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you."
45. "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth..."
46. "Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed."
47. "The safest road to hell is the gradual one---the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
48. "I knew I was in danger but was not depressed. I've read pretty well everything."
49. "It does seem to me like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most necessary."
50. "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
51. "Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God because He said so."
52. "A little lie is like a little pregnancy---it doesn't take long before everyone knows."
53. "If you look upon ham and eggs and lust, you have already committed breakfast in your heart."
54. "Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a fire?"
55. "If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found 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."
56. "I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside."
57. "God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
58. "The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded..."
59. "Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God."
60. "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next."
61. "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."
62. "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
63. "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
64. "God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them."
65. "This Man (Jesus) suddenly remarks one day, 'No one need fast while I am here.' Who is this Man who remarks that His mere presence suspends all normal rules?"
66. "I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art."
67. "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
68. "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling 'darkness' on the wall of his cell..."
69. "If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all."
70. "We are to be re-made. All the rabbit in us is to disappear---the worried, conscientious, ethical rabbit as well as the cowardly and sensual rabbit. We shall bleed and squeal as the handfuls of fur come out; and then, surprisingly, we shall find underneath it all a thing we have never yet imagined: a real Man, an ageless god, a son of God, strong, radiant, wise, beautiful, and drenched in joy."
71. "When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up."
72. "We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three results---Hatred---Terror---Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration."
73. "The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him."
74. "The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination".
75. "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".
76. "When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."
77. "He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other."
78. "The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines on it."
79. "Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing yet had been done."
80. "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."
