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Often Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
- I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore…
- I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive…
- Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
- When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in…
- When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on…
- Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
- I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.
- Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
- I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.
- Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived…
- If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often…
- It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
- If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very…
- There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts,…
- If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can…
- If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
- If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
- A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again,…
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without…
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the…
- Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
- He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course…
- The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will…
- When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go…
More Often Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I… — J. J. Abrams
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange