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Been Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
- 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…
- A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
- All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?…
- Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given…
- For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the…
- Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
- Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who…
- How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
- Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
- Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
- The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal…
- For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
- We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as…
- The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history…
- When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained…
- War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always…
- The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
- Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
- Selfishness has never been admired.
- The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
- All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died…
- When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.
- If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my…
- As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour