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Wants 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.
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to…
- We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
- Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
- Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian,…
- When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make…
- You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out…
- God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
- A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a…
- God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
- Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is…
- What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of…
- The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to…
- He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.
- He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and…
- The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know…
- The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he…
- It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,'…
- [S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that…
- The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman…
- We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not…
- There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do;…
- He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.
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- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall
- Nobody wants a fat lead singer. — Sebastian Bach
- I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he… — Michele Bachmann
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same… — James A. Baldwin
- My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants. — Stephen Baldwin
- A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn.… — Christian Bale
- I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor -… — Christian Bale