Al Lewis Quotes
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me
The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.
A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.
Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.
We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.
