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Sense Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result…
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the…
- Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part,…
- A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself…
- God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
- Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of…
- The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than…
- 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…
- I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
- It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
- To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a…
- It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
- In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we…
- If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often…
- When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These…
- Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and…
- I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been…
- 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…
- A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as…
- If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
- The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find…
- Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you…
- If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is…
- It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and…
- [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden