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Far Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
- Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists…
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
- Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
- Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to…
- In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
- Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.
- We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
- Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
- All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
- No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was…
- If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can…
- A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
- 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…
- What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes…
- I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as…
- A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as…
- Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...…
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the…
- Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support…
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- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. — Bashar al-Assad
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough