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Story Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- History is a story written by the finger of God.
- Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
- For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and…
- The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
- 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…
- Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some…
- A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
- And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
- And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the…
- Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes,…
- Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
- I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you…
- For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught…
- Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
- Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and…
- It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
- Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met…
- All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning…
- The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…
- You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
- Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in…
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- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
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- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles