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Turns 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…
- Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
- 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…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- 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…
- What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
- 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.
- Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
- 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…
- There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
- 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…
- A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
- 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…
- But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very…
- 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…
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- 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
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — 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
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez