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Doing Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the…
- I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore…
- The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
- The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the…
- The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
- The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next…
- A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good…
- 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…
- We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that…
- Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they…
- If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is…
- [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…
- And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say…
- He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
- If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but…
- We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
- When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I…
- I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying…
- 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,…
- We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does…
More Doing Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do… — Bryan Adams
- Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly,… — Christian Bale