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Him Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
- Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
- If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our…
- There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We…
- Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you…
- I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
- Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
- Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is…
- Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.
- I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore…
- We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of…
- It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
- You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.
- If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
- The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
- When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you…
- Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who…
- Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who…
- I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi