“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all”
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
― The Last Battle
― The Last Battle
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