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Life Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
- I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
- Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
- We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
- He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
- If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to…
- 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…
- There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this…
- Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given…
- For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the…
- When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice…
- Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
- Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
- The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to…
- The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills…
- Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces…
- We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to…
- He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly…
- The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
- The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history…
- All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem…
- When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
- War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle