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Best Once Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
- When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives…
- Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware…
- And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril…
- Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
- Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted,…
- When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will…
- God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was…
- By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
- And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you…
- But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right –…
- Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would…
- Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
- Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.…
- A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes…
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
- What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
- That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,…
- Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.
- I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else…
- Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and…
- Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going…
- Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
- When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins