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Trying Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of…
- Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
- I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing…
- Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots…
- 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…
- Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back…
- You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
- It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden…
- 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…
- The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from…
- 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…
- We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our…
- You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
- An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to…
- To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a…
- We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to…
- We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
- Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
- Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special…
- If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way,…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold