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C.S. Lewis has 1,857 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that…
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He…
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration…
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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the…
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
— Aeschylus
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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to…
— Baruch Spinoza
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over…
— Robert Boyle
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does…
— Saint Basil
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are…
— Ibn Hazm
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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not…
— Tertullian
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