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Even a blind man can see what stupid nonsense these people talk who are afraid of attributing excessive cruelty to God if the wicked be consigned to eternal punishment.

I don't know how it is, but when we love useless and worldly things, we are more attached to what we have than what we desire.

There is nothing in this present life, and especially now, more difficult, toilsome, and perilous than holding a church office if it is carried out in the way our Lord commands; but, at the same time, nothing is more blessed in God's sight.

Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, shining through the gospel and having overcome death, has, as Paul testifies, brought us the light of life.

Churchill took the opportunity to send a message to the Russian people. ‘Our resources,’ he told them, ‘are within reach and inexhaustible; our minds are made up. We have only to bend forward together laying aside every hindrance, keeping nothing back, and the downfall of German ambition is sure.’

It's by withdrawing completely from the turmoil of perishing things that a person becomes fearless. Insensitivity, daring, vainglory, superstitious credulity won't do it. This withdrawal is the source of the solid joy that cannot be compared in any respect with any other.

And since no one is evil by nature, but whoever is evil is evil by vice, he who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice, nor love the vice because of the man, but hate the vice and love the man.

There are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, according to the language of our Scriptures. The one consists of those who wish to live after the flesh, the other of those who wish to live after the spirit; and when they severally achieve what they wish, they live in peace, each after their kind.

God's grace is tasteless to men until the Holy Spirit brings its savor. 3.XXIV.14

But this war had brought many surprises. We had seen fortresses reputed throughout Europe to be impregnable collapsing after a few days’ attack by field armies without a regular siege. - WSC

Biblical typology would not "work" unless the God who speaks in the Bible were also Sovereign Lord who controls history.

Most certainly true; for prohibition increases the desire of illicit action, if righteousness is not so loved that the desire of sin is conquered by that love. But unless divine grace aid us, we cannot love nor delight in true righteousness.

Christ proclaims aloud that he has taken under his protection all whom the Father wishes to be saved.

What, then, you aim at in yourself you must aim at in your neighbor, namely, that he may love God with a perfect affection. For you do not love him as yourself, unless you try to draw him to that good which you are yourself pursuing. For this is the one good which has room for all to pursue it along with thee.

Following after God is the desire of happiness; to reach God is happiness itself. We follow after God by loving Him; we reach Him, not by becoming entirely what He is, but in nearness to Him, and in wonderful and immaterial contact with Him, and in being inwardly illuminated and occupied by His truth and holiness. He is light itself; we get enlightenment from Him.

Thus, by the unutterable mercy of God, even the very punishment of wickedness has become the armor of virtue, and the penalty of the sinner becomes the reward of the righteous. For then death was incurred by sinning, now righteousness is fulfilled by dying.

I read my second chapter, Passage of the Dead Marshes to Lewis... It was approved. I have now nearly done a third: Gates of the Land of Shadow. But this story takes me in charge, and I have already taken three chapters over what was meant to be one!

Be of good courage. God will grant us his presence as we have experienced it in our present quest. He promises us a most blessed future after this bodily life, a future full of truth without any falsehood.

But from the fact that the woman was made for him from his side, it was plainly meant that we should learn how dear the bond between man and wife should be.

And indeed He did not even create the woman that was to be given him as his wife, as he created the man, but created her out of the man, that the whole human race might derive from one man.

Reason: If Truth itself perishes, it will be true that Truth has perished?
Augustine: Who denies it?
R: But nothing can be true if there is no Truth.
A: I have admitted that a moment ago.
R: Truth, therefore, can never perish.
A: Go on as you have begun, for nothing is more true than that conclusion.

Let us therefore keep to the straight path, which is Christ, and, with Him as our Guide and Saviour, let us turn away in heart and mind from the unreal and futile cycles of the godless.

Hear me, my God, my Lord, my King, my Father, my Cause, my Hope, my Riches, my Honor, my Home, my Fatherland, my Health, my Light, my Life. Hear me, hear me, in thine own way known to but few.

Whatever it was, you could be certain that every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc.

The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.