"To enter heaven is to become more human……" — C.S. Lewis
"To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'"
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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 Banished Quotes
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one of 89 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
— Vannevar Bush
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different…
— Susan B. Anthony
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of…
— Herbert Hoover
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Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery…
— William James
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
— Plotinus
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented…
— John Quincy Adams
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back…
— Unknown Author
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You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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