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Loves Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
- Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his…
- Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
- 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…
- God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
- We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to…
- To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
- God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
- The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and…
- The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
- The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if…
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
- Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it…
- The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning…
- 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…
- We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they…
More Loves Quotes
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing… — Marcus Aurelius
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen
- Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay… — Lauren Bacall
- Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker