"Before we can be cured we must want……" — C.S. Lewis
"Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different…
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix…
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to…
— Joseph Campbell
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