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Failing Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world
- When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that…
- You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
- If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you…
- Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
- This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a…
- No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they…
More Failing Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is… — Michele Bachmann
- Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs
- High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make… — Joseph Barbera
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — Lord Acton