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World Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
- At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find…
- My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not…
- A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of…
- The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
- Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this…
- The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
- The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but…
- Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and…
- Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
- The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization…
- To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies…
- Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that…
- 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…
- The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills…
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
- The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
- The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness…
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility,…
- I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using…
- For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and…
- If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
- Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach