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Might Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to…
- A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of…
- The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
- The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but…
- Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who…
- We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
- The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that…
- Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to…
- In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
- I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head…
- One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)…
- Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have…
- We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something…
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to…
- [God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society…
- We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin…
- You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see…
- He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
- His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might…
- And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely…
- And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her…
- No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as…
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine