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Goes Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back…
- Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
- A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the…
- A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
- God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the…
- If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very…
- That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.…
- A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
- If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then…
- Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There…
- The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more…
- In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up…
- In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.
- All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning…
- I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language…
- The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far…
- All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule…
- When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of…
More Goes Quotes
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden