"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up……" — C.S. Lewis

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

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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 Cancer Quotes

This quote is filed under Cancer Quotes, one of 1,312 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. — Mario Batali
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution,… — Glenn Beck
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time… — Ingrid Bergman
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. — Ingrid Bergman
I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care.… — Jello Biafra
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of… — Jello Biafra
I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.… — Jo Brand
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At… — Geraldine Brooks
If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great… — Geraldine Brooks
Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix… — Bill Bryson

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