Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. |
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. |
All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be. |
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. |
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. |
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. |
Badness is only spoiled goodness. |
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees |
But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves |
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? |
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. |
Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life. |
Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage |
Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness. |
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. |