« All Turn Quotes · C.S. Lewis's Page
Turn Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
- God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of…
- Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory
- It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly…
- We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that…
- We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
- Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
- But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our…
- The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in…
- The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all…
- Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
- Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the…
- 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…
- When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you…
- Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers…
- When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find…
- That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,…
- I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language…
- All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary
- If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking…
- We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be
More Turn Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez
- O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. — Abu Bakr
- If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin