"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in……" — C.S. Lewis
"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience."
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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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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of…
— Theodore Bikel
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
— William Blake
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
— Bono
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do…
— David Bowie
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt…
— Sandra Bullock
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I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope…
— Sandra Bullock
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I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real…
— Nicolas Cage
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