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Think 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…
- We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
- How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
- If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to…
- Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part,…
- If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
- There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
- 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…
- For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is…
- Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such…
- The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
- Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are…
- Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of…
- Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who…
- We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
- 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…
- 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…
- I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive…
- When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in…
- Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
- In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where…
- The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a…
- I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I…
- Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
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