« All End Quotes · C.S. Lewis's Page
End Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to…
- 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,…
- Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
- God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
- To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
- The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
- The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends...
- At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'
- The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the…
- I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
- If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
- We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.
- The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is…
- As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the…
- I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been…
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be…
- Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something…
- Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life…
- Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of…
- Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...…
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth…
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
- Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.
- and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.
More End Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe