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Comes 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…
- Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that…
- Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the…
- Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will
- There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and…
- God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the…
- I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite…
- Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
- 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…
- The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it…
- When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of…
- The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the…
- Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the…
- To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,…
- The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if…
- I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been…
- The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,…
- The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!
- A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But…
- The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate…
- The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth,…
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
- Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to…
- Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally…
- The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens…
More Comes Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden