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Gives Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result…
- God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
- God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
- Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
- This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
- A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist…
- You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.
- If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man…
- When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives…
- Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too…
- We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts…
- You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind…
More Gives Quotes
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go. — Michelle Bachelet
- He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that… — Francis Bacon
- A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. — Kevin Bacon
- The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell