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World Quotes by C. S. Lewis

97 World quotes by C. S. Lewis

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A recovery of the old sense of sin is said to be essential to Christianity. The quotes criticize a world where buying and selling outweigh producing, and they describe humans as half spirit, half animal. They also wonder about luck, the unknown end of the world, and whether we truly understand what we ask of God.

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Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

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Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

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Prosperity knits a man to the world.

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Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

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Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

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To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

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Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

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All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure…

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The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

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It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit…

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The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we…

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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about…

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If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so…

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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were…

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I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like…

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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with…

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In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the…

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Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as…

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I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world…

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God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ...…

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Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest…

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Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half…

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We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough,…

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Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it…

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Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent…

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It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw…

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Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing…

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We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that…

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If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind…

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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

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Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them…

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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the…

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Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the…

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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

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Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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