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1 a) “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself…”
YES (in The Weight of Glory)
b) “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
NO (follow link to learn details)
2 a) “A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.”follow link to learn details
NO (follow link to learn details)
b) “There are only 24 hours in a day!”
YES, Letters: Feb. 2, 1959
3 a) “It is hard, when difficulties arise to know whether one is meant to overcome them or whether they are signs that one is on the wrong track.”
a. YES, Letters: Oct. 3, 1953
b) “The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”
b. YES – Surprised by Joy, Ch. 14
4a) “Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.”
a. NO (MM link)
b) “Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”
b. NO (Article link)
5a. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
a. NO (MM link)
b. “For, above all other spheres of human life, the Devil claims politics for his own, as almost the citadel of his power.”
b. YES, Letters: Aug. 10, 1953
6 a) “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
a. No (MM link)
b) “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
b. No (MM link)
7 a) Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
a. Yes,
The Allegory of Love, ch. 7, sec. 2
b) “My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.”
b. No (MM link)
8 a) “Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.”
a. No (MM link)
b) “Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd.”
b. YES, Mere Christianity, bk 2, ch. 2
9 a) “If you don’t read good books you will read bad ones.”
a. YES, from “Learning in War-Time” in The Weight of Glory
b) “Those who read poetry to improve their minds will never improve their minds by reading poetry.”
b. YES, from “Lilies That Fester” in The World’s Last Night
10 a) “Simply to say prayers is not to pray: otherwise a team of properly trained parrots would serve as well as men...”
a. YES, from “The Efficacy of Prayer” in The World’s Last Night
b) “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
b. No (MM LINK)
11 a) “It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”
a. No (MM Link)
b) “When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
b. No (Article Link)
12 a) “It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.”
a. No (Article link)
b) “No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.”
b. YES, Reflections of the Psalms, ch. 11
13 a) “One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the one hundred and one different things that might happen.”
a. YES, Letters – March 8, 1956
b) We no more become bad by thinking of badness than we become triangular by thinking about triangles.
b. YES, from A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’, ch. 12
14 a) “The only imperative that nature utters is, “Look. Listen. Attend.”
a. YES, from The Four Loves, ch. 2
b) “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
b. No (Article link)
15 a) “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
a. No (Article link)
b) “Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?”
b. YES, from Letters; December 21, 1941
