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Strong Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
- Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
- 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,…
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
- The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial…
- A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist…
- [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think…
- When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air…
- Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
- Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us…
- You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is…
- I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else…
- No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong…
- If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord…
More Strong Quotes
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. — Mary Astell
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he… — Michele Bachmann
- We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's… — Michele Bachmann
- I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. — Erykah Badu
- I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to… — David Bailey
- I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The… — Alan Ball