The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.
("The Screwtape Letters")
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We forgive, we mortify our resentment a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us it is the very sign of His presence.
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He cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
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