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Them Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the…
- God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of…
- If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned…
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
- 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…
- I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore…
- If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
- Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like…
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other…
- The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the…
- The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
- Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular…
- The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
- I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using…
- 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 higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than…
- God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
- The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle