"There ought to be things we should like……" — C.S. Lewis
"There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them."
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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 Charitable Quotes
This quote is filed under Charitable Quotes,
one of 149 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect…
— Joseph Addison
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
— Thomas Browne
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you…
— Maxim Gorky
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers,…
— August Strindberg
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
— Thomas Browne
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The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
— Robert Breault
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An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.
— Swami Vivekananda
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