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Against Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
- A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of…
- Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists…
- Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
- To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to…
- There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and…
- You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
- To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,…
- In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself…
- He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
- When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off…
- I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an…
- A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And…
- Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
- And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the…
- My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A…
- The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say…
- Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think…
- For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the…
- No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.…
- The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate…
- and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
- And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no…
- There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do;…
- Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
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