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Precisely Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
- Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular…
- The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
- The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
- For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however…
- If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the…
- The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is…
- If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better…
- The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's own or real life. The truth is,…
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- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw… — Thomas Jefferson
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely… — Alexander Hamilton
- Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves… — Richard L. Evans
- What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three… — Amin Maalouf
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. — Konrad Adenauer