"In commanding us to glorify Him, God is……" — C.S. Lewis
"In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him."
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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 Commanding Quotes
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one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance…
— Sun Tzu
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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
— Mark Helprin
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their…
— Blaise Pascal
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that…
— Lysander Spooner
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can…
— John Herschel
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The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master…
— John A. Lejeune
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Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
— A. A. Gill
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