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Hands Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
- Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness…
- If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
- Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:…
- Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself…
- If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If…
- 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…
- The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.
- ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of…
- We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something…
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and…
- The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a…
- She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about…
- Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life,…
- I don't want to hold you hand!
- He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and…
- It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
- At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.…
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than…
- You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is…
- No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all…
- What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation…
- Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his…
- I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the…
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf