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“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong, but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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