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Higher Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends...
- The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than…
- There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and…
- The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
- A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,…
- I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
- The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an…
- Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction…
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- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the… — Sai Baba
- I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for… — Michele Bachmann