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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…
- The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the…
- From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for…
- God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature…
More Creature Quotes
- 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
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- 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
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac
- If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that… — Bruce Barton
- The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of… — Jeremy Bentham
- Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson
- A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and… — Anita Brookner