"When first things are put first, second things……" — C.S. Lewis
"When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased."
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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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I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would…
— James O. Fraser
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The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified…
— Gerard Butler
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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third…
— Saint Augustine
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A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second,…
— Stanley Baldwin
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When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick…
— Manfred von Richthofen
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First is first,Second is nothing
— Bill Shankly
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If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must…
— Thomas Brooks
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First things first, second things never.
— Shirley Conran
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We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We…
— Carl Sagan
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The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.
— Anabel Jensen
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Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a…
— Graham Henry
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All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my…
— Meg Ryan
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