“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
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“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. ”
― The Love Dare
― The Love Dare
“Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
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