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“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”
“Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule—it is a failure to treat God as God.”
― Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
― Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“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
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