 He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart. Topics: Humorous, Lust, The Heart |
| Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. Topics: Humorous |
| It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. Topics: Humorous, Prayer |
| The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. Topics: Humorous, Ignorance |
| A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish. Topics: Humorous, Selfishness |
| This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. Topics: Hypocrisy
Source: The Case for Christianity |
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| An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath. Topics: Hypocrisy
Source: Surprised by Joy |
| Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Topics: Hypocrisy, Men |
| The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success. Topics: Hypocrisy, Worldliness
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers. Topics: Hypocrisy |
| As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. Topics: Ignorance, Materialism, Victory |
| Human intellect is incurably abstract. Topics: Ignorance
Source: Myth Became Fact, World Dominion |
