Once you have realised that the Frenchmen like café complet just as we like bacon and eggs—why, good luck to them and let them have it. The last thing we want is to make everywhere else just like our own home. It would not be home unless it were different.


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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be...
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explana...
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...
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You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
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When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, ...
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In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates o...
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one ...
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Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up o...
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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d...
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They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, i...
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...
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Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...
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The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...
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Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
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Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...
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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
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I desired dragons with a profound desire.
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What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
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But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
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Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
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People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
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You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
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All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
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A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
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What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
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Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
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“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
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Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
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I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walk...
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