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Something Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
- 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…
- If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with…
- When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and…
- The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there…
- To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
- Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
- The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to…
- You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to…
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
- A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a…
- God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian,…
- The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
- Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it…
- When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make…
- It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell…
- God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
More Something Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino