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Firsts Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a…
- 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…
- Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.
- When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its…
- God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
- Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.
- If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
- 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…
- The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling…
- 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…
- When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
- A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
- Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
- The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
- These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought…
- You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
- To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made…
- Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath…
- Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
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