CS Lewis Quotes
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.
I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.
Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.
We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.
But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.
A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.