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May Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be…
- We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
- Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
- A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself…
- The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely…
- 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…
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
- 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…
- The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
- 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…
- If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
- An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
- If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
- It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
- For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
- God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
- ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It…
- And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle