"Talk to me about the truth of religion……" — C.S. Lewis
"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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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 Consolation Quotes
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
— Brendan Behan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one…
— George MacDonald
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Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
— Tryon Edwards
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
— William Shakespeare
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have…
— Albert Camus
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.…
— Khalil Gibran
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
— Josh Billings
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