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Ought Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility,…
- 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…
- These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought…
- There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
- We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It…
- The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you…
- Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to…
- The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came…
- But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once…
- Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one…
- My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected…
- Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of…
- I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
- We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.
- 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…
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility…
More Ought Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon