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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
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"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."

"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
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"And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much as usual--I loath the slightest effort. Not only writing but even reading a letter is too much."

"Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones--bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas."

"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."

"Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else."

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

"When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things."

"The 'doctrines' we get out of the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in a language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection."

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination."

"In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault."
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