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Light Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
- Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?
- You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to…
- I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head…
- As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is…
- We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing…
- The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as…
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
- If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light…
- She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with…
- This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I…
- In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting…
- Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.
- In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to…
- I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is…
- A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. If the whole…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt