"You must not do, you must not even……" — C.S. Lewis
"You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'."
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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 Doctrine Quotes
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
— Karen Armstrong
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
— Saint Basil
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The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
— Ambrose Bierce
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You…
— Herman Cain
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Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by…
— Tony Campolo
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
— Noam Chomsky
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