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Once Christianity became acceptable, and even mandatory, it lost the early poverty of spirit which sustained it when any group gathered together for bread and wine in his Name had to have one ear open for the knock on the door. But don't we ever have opportunities for poverty of spirit, we middle-class, comfortable Americans? We do, though what is asked of us is not as spectacular or as dangerous as what was asked of the first Christians. B..
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One night after dinner a group of us were talking about the supernatural, and one of our dinner guests said that when the electric light was invented, people began to lose the dimension of the supernatural. In the days before we could touch a switch and flood every section of the room with light, there were always shadows in the corner, shadows which moved with candlelight, with firelight; and these shadows were an outward and visible sign ..
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I doubt if it is given to the human being to understand completely the blessed passion and precious death, the mighty resurrection and glorious ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. I know that I do not understand. But I also know that it has nothing to do with the angry unforgiving God who so upset my young friend. If the basic definition of sin is lack of love (that love without which all men are dead in the sight of God, as Cranmer wrote i..
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If I do wrong, I may do it unwittingly, thinking I am doing something for the best; but if it turns out to be wrong, I have done it, and I must bear the responsibility. It is not somebody else's or something else's fault. If it is I am less than human. Like everybody else, I tend to rationalize and alibi, before I let myself admit, "Yes, I did this. I am sorry. I will do what I can to make reparation." Our sins defeat us unless we are willi..
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When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this--and out of nothing--can still c..
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Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.
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We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.
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You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.
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Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.
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The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished canvas (van Gogh was denied the satisfaction of having his work bought and appreciated during his lifetime; no wonder the pain was more than he could bear); the composer needs his music to be heard. Art is communication, and if there is no communication it is as though the work has been stillborn.
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Po-tvoemu, ob'iasnit' mozhno vse i vsegda? -- Da. Ia veriu v eto. No ia takzhe dumaiu, chto my, liudi, slishkom ogranichenny, a potomu inogda prosto ne v sostoianii postich' eti ob'iasneniia. No ty ved' ponimaesh', Meg, chto nasha nesposobnost' poniat' eshche ne znachit, chto ob'iasneniia ne sushchestvuet.
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U nas nikomu ne pozvoleno stradat'. Dobree mery ne pridumaesh': prosto iskliuchit' iz obshchestva vsekh bol'nykh! Nikto ne imeet nikakikh slabostei i takikh otklonenii, kak soplivye nosy. Vmesto togo, chtoby pozvolit' im stradat' ot otklonenii, ikh prosto usypliaiut.
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You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.
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He's not good for you," Omio said. "He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give."
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Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers
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Not so much of dying, if--I'm afraid of annihilation. Of not being.
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You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow."
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CENTRAL Central
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Nu zachem vy obiazatel'no khotite, chtoby ia smotrela na nepriiatnye veshchi, kogda v mire est' stol'ko chudesnogo? -- V mire skoro ne ostanetsia chudesnykh veshchei, na kotorye ty smogla by smotret', esli otvetstvennye liudi ne pozabotiatsia o nepriiatnykh veshchakh!
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Ia upravliaiu gipnoticheskoi mashinoi nomer odin dlia vtorogo klassa obshcheobrazovatel'nogo protsessa. -- No togda chto vy delaete zdes' seichas? -- sprosil Charl'z. -- Ia zdes' s dokladom o tom, chto odna iz bukv na moei mashine zapadaet i, poka ee kak sleduet ne smazhet master F-klassa, ostaetsia opasnost' defektov v mozgakh.
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A u vas samogo razve ne bylo papy? -- udivilas' Meg. -- Papa ne nuzhen zachem-to. On nuzhen vam prosto potomu, chto on vash papa!
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What happens to what's happened?" she asked the bishop. "It's there. Waiting."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Alike and Equal are not the same.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Hate was nothing that IT didn't have. IT knew all about hate.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Faith is for the part of the story that superficially isn't believable.
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