I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.


C. S. Forester

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Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 The very activities for which we were created are, while we...
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We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we...
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Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...
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Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 Can we believe that God ever modifies His act...
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If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad be...
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THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We ...
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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 In ...
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One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reaso...
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Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without atte...
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Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who t...
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As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. ... C...
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Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbish...
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this ...
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Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
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My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repe...
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Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 It may be possible for each of us to th...
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Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians...
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The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by know...
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If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting tha...
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Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 A Christian and an unbelieving poe...
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C. S. Lewis Centennial Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in i...
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Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
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I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own si...
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Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation We must not encourage in ourselves or others...
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Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Pri...
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Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 I have often, on my knees...
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Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
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When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the ...
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I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly b...
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Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 An essential part of ...
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Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We must never speak to simple, ex...
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Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 If the [Incarnation] ha...
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If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad be...
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In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the L...
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Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowaday...
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Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 The very strength and ...
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is...
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Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses,...
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Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 What mak...
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Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Wri...
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Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabet...
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Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if ...
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Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Continuing a short se...
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Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 The [Christian] "doctrines" are translation...
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and o...
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Feast of the Conversion of Paul If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest h...
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Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 To excuse what can really produce good excuses is...
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Easter Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any l...
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True love makes the imperfect to perfect .... otherwise love is not true.....
BASIL C S
We can fight with our destiny ...but one day you should be ready to admit it , surrender to it ........
BASIL C S
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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The Destiny of a good man is to live for self actualization
BASIL C S
If Love is not powerful , what else is .......!!!
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Get out, you blazing ass! / Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me!
C. S. CALVERLEY
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY
The boy, a bare-legged beggarly son of a gun.
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I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, / Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours.
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Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals.
C. S. CALVERLEY