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"Imagine yourself every bit a living house. God comes in to rebuild that firm. At outset, peradventure, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and and then on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and and then you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the business firm about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different firm from the one y'all thought of - throwing out a new wing hither, putting on an extra floor in that location, running up towers, making courtyards. You lot idea you lot were being made into a decent trivial cottage: but He is edifice a palace. He intends to come and alive in it Himself."
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"I am trying hither to preclude anyone saying the really foolish thing that people oft say almost Him: I'chiliad ready to accept Jesus as a dandy moral teacher, but I don't accept his merits to be God. That is the i thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not exist a great moral instructor. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must brand your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You lot tin shut him up for a fool, you tin spit at him and impale him as a demon or yous tin can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come up with whatever patronizing nonsense about his being a dandy human teacher. He has non left that open to the states. He did not intend to."
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"Even in literature and art, no homo who bothers about originality will e'er be original: whereas if yous simply endeavour to tell the truth (without caring twopence how frequently information technology has been told before) yous will, nine times out of 10, become original without ever having noticed it."
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"A proud human being is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long every bit yous are looking down, you cannot encounter something that is above yous."
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"To have Faith in Christ means, of grade, trying to do all that He says. At that place would be no sense in saying you lot trusted a person if y'all would non take his advice. Thus if y'all have actually handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried mode. Not doing these things in gild to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven equally a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to human activity in a certain mode considering a start faint gleam of Sky is already inside you."
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"And out of that hopeless try has come nearly all that we phone call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of homo trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"A silly thought is electric current that good people do non know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Just those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been similar an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little well-nigh badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
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"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for some other world."
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"Give me all of yous!!! I don't want so much of your time, so much of your talents and coin, and and then much of your work. I desire You!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have non come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to Impale Information technology! No one-half measures volition exercise. I don't desire to but clip a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Paw it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of yous a new self---in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall become your will. My middle, shall become your heart."
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"As long as you lot are proud you lot cannot know God. A proud man is always looking downwardly on thing and people: and, of class, as long equally yous are looking downwards you cannot encounter something that is above yous."
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"Aught you lot accept not given away volition ever really exist yours."
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"Your existent, new self (which is Christ'south and as well yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long every bit you are looking for it. It will come up when you are looking for Him. Does that audio strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you end thinking nigh what sort of impression you lot are making. Fifty-fifty in literature and fine art, no human who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if y'all merely try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you lot will, nine times out of x, become original without ever having noticed information technology. The principle runs through all life from acme to lesser, Give up yourself, and y'all volition notice your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every twenty-four hour period and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you volition find eternal life. Keep back zip. Nil that you have not given abroad volition be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will always be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and yous volition find in the long run but hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. Only look for Christ and you volition find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
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"When y'all debate against Him you lot are arguing against the very power that makes you able to debate at all: it is like cutting off the branch you lot are sitting on."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never take plant out that it has no pregnant: just every bit, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with optics, we should never know it was dark. Nighttime would be without meaning."
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"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."
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"Pride gets no pleasance out of having something, but out of having more of it than the side by side human being... Information technology is the comparing that makes you proud: the pleasure of being to a higher place the remainder. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."
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"It may exist hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And yous cannot go on indefinitely existence simply an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or become bad."
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"Religion, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
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"The Christian says, 'Creatures are not built-in with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A infant feels hunger: well, in that location is such a thing as nutrient. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a matter every bit water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a matter as sex. If I find in myself a want which no experience in this world tin can satisfy, the virtually probable caption is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does non prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy information technology, but just to arouse it, to suggest the real affair. If that is then, I must take care, on the one paw, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to fault them for the something else of which they are only a kind of re-create, or echo, or mirage. I must proceed alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till later on death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make information technology the main object of life to press on to that country and to assistance others to exercise the same."
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"Do not waste material time bothering whether y'all 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. Equally before long as we do this nosotros observe one of the great secrets. When you lot are behaving as if you loved someone, you volition soon come to love him."
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"Knowledge tin can last, principles can last, habits tin terminal; only feelings come up and go... But, of grade, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Dearest in this second sense — dear every bit distinct from "being in love" — is non merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced past (in Christian union) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God... "Existence in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter dear enables them to keep the promise. It is on this beloved that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it."
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"I think Christian teachers telling me long agone that I must detest a bad human being's actions but not hate the bad human being: or, as they would say, hate the sin merely non the sinner. ...I used to call back this a silly, harbinger-splitting stardom: how could you hate what a man did and not detest the homo? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life -- namely myself. However much I might dislike my ain cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about information technology. In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the homo. Merely because I loved myself, I was pitiful to find that I was the sort of man who did those things."
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"To what will you lot look for aid if yous will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?"
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"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."
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"If you are a Christian you lot practice not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If yous are an atheist you do have to believe that the principal point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake."
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"This world is a slap-up sculptor'southward shop. We are the statues and there'southward a rumor going around the store that some of the states are someday going to come to life."
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"The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in dear, to be true to the beloved every bit long as I alive, commits me to being truthful even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be nearly things that I can exercise, about actions: no ane can promise to go along feeling in a certain way. He might as well hope to never have a headache or always to feel hungry."
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"God made u.s.a.: invented the states as a human invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is merely no skilful asking God to make u.s. happy in our ain manner without bothering about religion. God cannot requite usa a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there."
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"If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would exist very hard to empathise how we could be gratis not to do them. But suppose god is exterior and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your deportment at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow'due south deportment in but the same style--because He is already in tomorrow and tin can simply sentry y'all. In a sense, He does not know your action till y'all take done it: but the moment at which you have done information technology is already 'NOW' for Him."
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"In the aforementioned manner a Christian is non a man who never goes incorrect, merely a man is enabled to repent and pick himself upwardly and brainstorm once again later each stumble--because the Christ-life is within him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity"
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