C. S. Lewis Quotes
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
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Only the family of God can solve the problems of our time.
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Ever hear that expression, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? That's what high school was like for me. Both of those - all the time.
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You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.
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The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
