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Worth Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
- If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
- Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular…
- Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
- If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why,…
- Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a…
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the…
- My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and…
- It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
- A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.
- Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
- Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too…
- If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
- In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy,…
- The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the…
- God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature…
More Worth Quotes
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. — Marcus Aurelius
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. — Robert Baden-Powell
- No one can figure out your worth but you. — Pearl Bailey
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth… — Antonio Banderas
- Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks
- I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making. — Javier Bardem
- I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have… — Brigitte Bardot