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Quite Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
- It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
- Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'
- But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by…
- All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died…
- Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot…
- I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite…
- One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her…
- The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is…
- The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us…
- Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When…
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course…
- It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have…
- And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say…
- Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.
- Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
- Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and…
- That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and…
- Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the…
- Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite…
- I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been…
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden