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Perhaps Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
- I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
- If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
- When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
- If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created…
- 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…
- Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
- You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps…
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
- Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I…
- Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
- Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support…
- In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can…
- Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear
- Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom…
- We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.
- I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and…
- An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a…
- The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give…
- the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.
- And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps…
- No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering…
- What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in…
- "Smelling isn't everything" said the Elephant. "Why," said the Bulldog, "if a fellow can't trust his nose, what is he to trust?" "Well, his brains…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun