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I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
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That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
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God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
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The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
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All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.
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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.
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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
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If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
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When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
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All that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
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God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.
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If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.
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The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
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Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
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Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.
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The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.
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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
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What can you ever really know of other people's souls—of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know and this is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him. You cannot put Him off with speculations about your next door neighbours or memories of what you have read in books.
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The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
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Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
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Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
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If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will... then we may take it it is worth paying.
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It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
November 29, 1898
Died:
November 22, 1963
(aged 64)
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