Desire Quote by C. S. Lewis Download Open image “Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.” — C. S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Heaven Mercenary Offers Soul Wisdom
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. — Moliere Copy Share Image
I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures. — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their… — William Blake Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
