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• the best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians- when they are sombre and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they arrogant and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths. (Vanauken, A Severe Mercy)
• the knock came again. We did not stir. whoever it was-we never found out- gave up. Heels went away. Probably it was Jesus. (Vanauken, A Severe Mercy)
• Besides, Christians NEVER say goodbye! (C.S. Lewis)
• If all is lost, thanks be to God, For He is He, and I, I am only I. (A Severe Mercy)
• [Christianity is] a condition of complete simplicity/ (costing no less than everything) (T.S. Eliot, For Quartets)
• It is a well known fact that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice)
• I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson)
• If I can see farther than others, it is only because I stand on the shoulders of giants. (Sir Issac Newton)
• Oh, Brave new world, that such people live in it! (Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
• I wonder who first discovered the efficiency of poetry in driving away love (Jane Austen)