C. S. Lewis Quotes

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Quotes to Explore
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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It certainly is a situation of great delicacy but, at the same time, one in which it would seem I hold fifty per cent of the bargaining power in order that the Duchess and I can plan for the future in the most constructive and convenient way.
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Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Lord Jesus Christ, you created me, you watched over me from infancy, kept my body from defilement, preserved me from love of the world, made me able to withstand torture, and granted me the virtue of patience in the midst of torments.
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.