It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is mat...ters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on... thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), ...then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively.... But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest re...ality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without... signposts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humans are amphibians--half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit ti...me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »