Agony Quote by C. S. Lewis Download Open image “Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.” — C. S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agony Cybersecurity Joy Prosperity Real Real joy Security Suffering Wealth
I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust. — Laurel Mellin Copy Share Image
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile. — Anonymous 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
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. — John Keble Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has… — Kane Copy Share Image
