You cannot make men good by law and without good men you cannot have a good society
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Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.C.S. Lewis
The decay of Logic results from an untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.
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But to hint and hover...when we most wish to be free of them what is this but cat-and-mouse play, blindman's bluff, a mere jugglery Why must holy places be dark places
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
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