So many things – nay every real thing – is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn’t stayed put and all has to be done over again.
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
The prayer preceding all prayers is ‘May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.’
As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.
Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes – like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night – little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.
If things are real, they’re there all the time.
While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people’s ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.
Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining ‘It’s not fair’ before you can say Jack Robinson.
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
It’s like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we’re so anxious not to see.
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be “like real life” in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
Hell is a state of mind – ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind – is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.