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1. Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
2. Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
3. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
4. If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
5. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
6. We are what we believe we are.
7. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
8. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
9. Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
10. There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
11. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
12. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
13. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
14. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
15. Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
16. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
17. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
18. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
19. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
20. Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.