Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 29, 1898 Death: November 22, 1963
Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity..
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts..
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point..
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there..
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends..
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in th….
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world..
Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality..
I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out clo….
You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious..
You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another..
No people find each other more absurd than lovers.
Obedience is the road to freedom..
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray..
Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked..
Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers..
A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous..
His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say..
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christ….
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this….
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like..