C. S. Lewis Quotes

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • God
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• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
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  • Experience
  • Library

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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  • Man
  • Relationship

• When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

  

  Olivia Hussey
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• I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

  

  Ralph Steadman
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• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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  • May
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• I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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• It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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  • Clear

• Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
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  • Willingness

• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.

  

  Keith Jackson
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• We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.

  

  Alexander Ahndoril
  • Sun

• I'm more of a seat of my pants, heat of the moment kind of person, which lends itself well to hosting and acting, but not necessarily going, "Oh, what is my shot list? That's right, I needed to work on a shot list."

  

  Zachary Levi
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• Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.

  

  Errico Malatesta
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  • Government
  • Authority

• If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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