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Means Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable…
- Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested…
- It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is…
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest…
- As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
- The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
- Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need…
- God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to…
- To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a…
- Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what…
- For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however…
- A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good…
- To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,…
- I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as…
- Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
- If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
- A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as…
- We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that…
- Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you…
- And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the…
- [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a…
- Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think)…
- A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist…
- [Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange