And he thought then, as he always thought afterward too, that he could not decently have done anything else.
“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.”
― Peace Like a River
― Peace Like a River
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“What are we born for?’ ‘For infinite happiness,’ said the Spirit. ‘You can step out into it at any moment…”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in this world.”
― Peace Like a River
― Peace Like a River
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