"The process of growing up is to be……" — C.S. Lewis
"The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site.
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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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More Gain Quotes
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one of 2,122 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every…
— Ellen Barkin
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
— Josh Billings
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the…
— Aeschylus
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