"It is natural for us to wish that……" — C.S. Lewis
"It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less."
—
C.S. Lewis
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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…
See all 1,827 quotes by C.S. Lewis »
More Arduous Quotes
This quote is filed under Arduous Quotes,
one of 98 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
— Andre Gide
-
Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.
— Anne, Princess Royal
-
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
— Virginia Woolf
-
I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that…
— Karch Kiraly
-
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces…
— L. Sprague de Camp
-
Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.
— Wes Fesler
-
There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was…
— Lance Armstrong
-
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
— Ovid
-
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the…
— James Madison
-
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments,…
— Alexander Hamilton
See all 98 Arduous Quotes »