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    A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

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    A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

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    Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

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    A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

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    A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

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    Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

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    Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

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    Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

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    A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly- One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.

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    Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

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    Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

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    Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

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    All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

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    All haste implies weakness.

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    All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

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    All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

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    All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

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    All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already embodied.

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    All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

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    A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

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    A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

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    Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

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    And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so comes the bird to harm, Seeing our Father, thou hast said, Is by the sparrow's dying bed; Therefore it is a blessed place, And the sparrow in high grace.

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    And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

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    Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

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    Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

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    Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

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    A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

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    As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

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    As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.

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    As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

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    As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

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    As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

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    Attitudes are more important than facts.

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    A true friend is forever a friend.

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    A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.

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    Beauty and sadness always go together.

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    Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

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    Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

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    But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

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    But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

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    But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

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    But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

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    "But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?

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    But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

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    But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.

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    But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

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    But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

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    But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

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    But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.