You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.
("The Last Battle")
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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.
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In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
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I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.
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