"All killing is not murder any more than……" — C.S. Lewis

"All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery."

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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…

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More Adultery Quotes

This quote is filed under Adultery Quotes, one of 239 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,… — Bono
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,… — Samuel Butler
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do… — Jimmy Carter
Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. — Nora Roberts
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a… — W. Somerset Maugham
Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other… — Dan Savage
The first breathe of adultery is the freest. — John Updike
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and… — R.J. Rushdoony
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have… — St. Jerome

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