C. S. Lewis Quotes

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

C. S. Lewis

• God
• Mind
• Reality
• Perfect
• Desire

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Computers

• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Change

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Great
  • Society
  • Purpose

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Mine

• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Serious
  • Child

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • People
  • Crazy

• It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • President
  • Organization
  • Abuse

• For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Political

• My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Person

• We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Mind
  • Reality