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Helping Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
- A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
- I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it…
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
- Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to…
- God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to…
- Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.
- Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people…
- Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
- I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
- For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however…
- The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
- In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God…
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- 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…
- If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to…
- To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
- 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…
- Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards…
- when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least…
- Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty…
- The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.
- The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give…
- When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you…
- I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of…
More Helping Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of… — Victoria Abril
- Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are… — Robert Asprin
- 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
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. — Saint Augustine
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila