"For the church is not a human society……" — C.S. Lewis
"For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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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More Affinities Quotes
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
— George Santayana
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of…
— Joseph Paxton
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It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than…
— Remy de Gourmont
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may…
— Richard Owen
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Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all…
— Robert Greene
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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
— Louis Agassiz
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We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that…
— Oswald Chambers
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In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
— Guillaume Canet
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This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that…
— Jons Jacob Berzelius
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