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"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important."

"For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary."

"Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body and if so, why? If God's goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death is unendurably as before it."

"Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature."

"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."

"Kingdom priority is understood by disciples only."

"Religion is the product of organizations called churches."
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"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."

"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."

"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us."

"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

"Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success."

"Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it."

"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."

"He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end."

"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."
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