C. S. Lewis Quotes
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
C. S. Lewis
Quotes to Explore
I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
Dana Carvey
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
Viggo Mortensen
Only silence perfects silence.
A. R. Ammons
So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
Ornette Coleman
If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
Dan Webster
I know God has a plan for me. I don't know what it is.
Benjamin Watson
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
Brian Clough
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
Benjamin E. Mays
I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
Peter Thiel
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
C. S. Lewis