"Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a……" — C.S. Lewis
"Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some…
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building…
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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step…
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or…
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