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Action Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
- Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
- As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
- Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
- If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
- The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will…
- There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts…
- Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend…
- If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is…
- [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…
- The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live,…
- The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,…
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
- If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious…
- But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with…
- You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind…
More Action Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama