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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.