C. S. Lewis Quotes

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

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• About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

  

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• God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

  

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• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

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• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

  

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• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
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• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

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• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
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• Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

  

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• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  

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• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

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• Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  

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• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

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• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
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• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• My goal is to try to weaponize the American people, try to weaponize the conservative movement, try to weaponize the underground conservative Hollywood movement, to weaponize as many people in the center-right country to try to rectify a generation-plus long problem that has been absolute media bias, absolute media used by the Democratic Party as a tool to defeat conservatives.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
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• The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

  

  NeNe Leakes
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• Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
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• Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
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• What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

  

  C. S. Lewis
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