"Every sin is the distortion of an energy…" — C.S. Lewis
"Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us..."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site.
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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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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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
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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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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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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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More Breathed Quotes
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one of 223 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in…
— William C. Bryant
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Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit…
— Thomas Brooks
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— Unknown Author
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
— Italo Calvino
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Openly I whispered and breathed a big gulp of air and saw all the beautiful trees and birds which surrounded…
— Unknown Author
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I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom…
— William Shakespeare
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We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
— Nelly Sachs
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Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life,…
— Louis Sullivan
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
— Zadie Smith
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When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians.
— Noel Pearson
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I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it…
— Rozsa Peter
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