"We regard God as an airman regards his……" — C.S. Lewis
"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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 Airman Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.
— Francis Collins
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Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and…
— Barack Obama
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Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one…
— Barack Obama
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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every…
— Virginia Woolf
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I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
— Sean Hannity
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One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier,…
— Jon Kyl
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The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because…
— Allen West
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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those…
— William Butler Yeats
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Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing.…
— Scott Westerfeld
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As a son of an airman who was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and a member of…
— Ron Barber
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