Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.C.S. Lewis
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
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