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To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.
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We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.
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You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
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Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us...
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To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
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The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
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Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?
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Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.
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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
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Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
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The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
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Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
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We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
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The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
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The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
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Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
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Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...
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