If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.C.S. Lewis
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best
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The decay of Logic results from an untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
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God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . . It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.
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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.
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