Ponderings of a Philalethist

1. “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word “darkness” on the walls of his cell

2.  “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.”

3.  “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

4.  “Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..

5.  “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

6.  “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

 7.  “When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.”

8.  “Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated.”

9.  “You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to ‘know of the doctrine’.”

10.  “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

11.  “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

12.  “Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

13.  “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else”