"Man is not the centre. God does not……" — C.S. Lewis
"Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake."
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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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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every…
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When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is…
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After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'
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The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is…
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I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre.…
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All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems…
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to…
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find?…
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