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Wishes Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
- For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however…
- There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old,…
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the…
- A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
- I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has…
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than…
- Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber…
- It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
- The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far…
- In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain…
- The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job…
More Wishes Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect. — Drew Barrymore
- The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire
- Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. — Joseph Addison
- Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent… — George Ade