"For the Present is the point at which…" — C.S. Lewis
"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
— William Barclay
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
— Henry Adams
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I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call…
— Drew Barrymore
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms…
— William Blake
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
— William Blake
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
— William Blake
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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