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Given Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
- The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
- Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given…
- Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.
- The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
- When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in…
- The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
- Much is expected from those to whom much is given.
- I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
- The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how…
- Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
- It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the…
- Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
- Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with…
- I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
- The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it…
- When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
- Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber…
- And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps…
- You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or…
- The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the…
- 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…
More Given Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work… — Richard Bach