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Pleased Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other…
- Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
- We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has…
- He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and…
- Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still…
- And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at…
- The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning…
- If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord…
More Pleased Quotes
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,… — Joseph Addison
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
- The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. — Ambrose Bierce
- I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy… — Anthony Bourdain
- School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so… — Jo Brand
- We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very… — Richard Branson
- I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as… — Eva Braun
- Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased. — Jeff Bridges
- The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your… — Jean de la Bruyere
- I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere. — George Burns