C. S. Lewis Quotes

Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

C. S. Lewis

• God
• Mind
• Pride

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Mind
  • Feel
  • Ready

• I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Man
  • Heaven

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mind
  • Love
  • For Her

• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Life
  • Mind
  • King

• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • New York

• God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Job
  • Computer

• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Mind
  • America

• I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Sure

• Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Trump
  • Daily

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Creation

• Music needs no human justification. God saw fit to include music in the totality of his creation and as such it needs no further justification. This is the starting place for thinking about music, period, full stop, end of report.

  

  Charlie Peacock
  • Music
  • God
  • Creation

• Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services. I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.

  

  Lisa Caputo
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

  

  David Deida
  • Spiritual
  • Practice
  • Hurt

• So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

  

  Ellen Bass
  • People
  • Nature
  • Courage

• The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Movie
  • Musical
  • Performances

• Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Mind
  • Pride