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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 Cured Quotes

This quote is filed under Cured Quotes, one of 305 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself… — Honore de Balzac
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by… — Isaiah Berlin
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to… — Emily Bronte
In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. — Tony Campolo
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. — Anton Chekhov
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. — Emile M. Cioran
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. — William J. Clinton
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is… — William J. Clinton
Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or… — Adam Ant
The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character… — Oswald Chambers
"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Sudden love is latest cured. — Jean de la Bruyere

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