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Natural Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a…
- Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
- The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to…
- The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends...
- 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…
- ...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…
- Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
- Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:…
- 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…
- It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing…
- Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life…
- Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
- No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all…
- Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
- 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…
- Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not…
- The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far…
- 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…
- There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's…
- For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not…
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- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. — David Attenborough
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
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