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Before Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
- 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 Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that…
- 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…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is…
- A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
- Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like…
- 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…
- Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- 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…
- An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to…
- Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people…
- Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It…
- No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was…
- If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
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- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They… — Barack Obama