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Order Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be…
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
- Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of…
- God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what…
- In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us…
- In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the…
- We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.
- Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
- [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…
- Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis:…
- Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded…
- [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…
- First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear…
- God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
- I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying…
- If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for…
- 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…
- Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction…
More Order Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila