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Ends 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...
- One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour.…
- 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…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- 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 ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C.S. Lewis
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda