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Call Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it…
- The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a…
- The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
- He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what…
- A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
- We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
- What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
- Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with…
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
- The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to…
- When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air…
- He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were…
- They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.
- 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…
- Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
- Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
- I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying…
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- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about… — Barack Obama
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown… — Christian Bale