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Back Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We…
- It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back…
- The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we…
- Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back…
- After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only,…
- In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
- Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it…
- The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
- Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is…
- On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.
- That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.…
- A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a…
- If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then…
- We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that…
- The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came…
- The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find…
- And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if…
- That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized…
- Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
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- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- The angel brought you back." "Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for… — Cassandra Clare
- Sometimes I Dont Know Why I B0thered To Love When I Know For A Fact That It Will Always Be The Same… — Unknown Author