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Creatures 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…
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- 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…
- It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves…
- 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.
- God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
- Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
- We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
- We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
- 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…
- For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
- Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or…
- Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have…
- Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different…
More Creatures 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
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- 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
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- 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