« All Done Quotes · C.S. Lewis's Page
Done Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
- There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is…
- No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that…
- The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness…
- There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and…
- A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it…
- The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
- The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will…
- The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading…
- What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by…
- Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of…
- Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable…
- Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not…
- The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for…
- The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,…
More Done Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent,… — Unknown Author
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila