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Certain Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
- Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
- Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need…
- You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out…
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to…
- These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought…
- Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)…
- A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and…
- But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.
- Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to…
- The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the…
- Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support…
- [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a…
- Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less…
- The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live,…
- The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more…
- Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of…
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else…
- In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
More Certain Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say… — Luis Bunuel
- I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can… — Barack Obama
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell