"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an……" — C.S. Lewis
"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."
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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 Destiny Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
— Aristotle
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
— Honore de Balzac
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
— Dennis Banks
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get…
— Charles Barkley
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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