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Set Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
- When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that…
- The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you…
- A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and…
- Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from…
- 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…
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- 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.
- I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great…
- But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our…
- Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
- No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all…
- Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than…
- if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
- You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the…
- I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and…
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
- What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
- If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place…
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. --C. S. Lewis
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