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Act Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
- In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
- You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to…
- The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on…
- Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what…
- I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite…
- Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
- A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as…
- The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will…
- [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a…
- Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of…
- For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like…
- This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the…
- And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril…
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
- By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
- Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.…
- The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon…
More Act Quotes
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold