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Creature Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of…
- There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
- The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we…
- When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice…
- God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of…
- Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular…
- 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…
- Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
- Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms,…
- I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to…
- Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different…
- Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of…
- It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you…
- Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
- Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
- Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the…
- You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
- Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back…
- 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…
- But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of…
More Creature Quotes
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring,… — Helena Bonham Carter
- I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush… — Madeleine L'Engle
- There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson