Quote by Cyril Connolly
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our fa

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. – Cyril Connolly

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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. – Cyril Connolly

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satans attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices. – Charles Stanley

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. – Mason Cooley

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. – Sean Connery

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