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Seem Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a…
- 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…
- Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
- I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish…
- 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…
- Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.
- All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem…
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
- Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.
- To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made…
- Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have…
- But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at…
- The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a…
- You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about…
- There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does…
- What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these…
- Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too…
- You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or…
- ...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who…
- 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…
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