“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.”
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
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