C. S. Lewis Quotes
After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.
Quotes to Explore
-
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
-
Acting was something I had to do.
-
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
-
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
-
I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
-
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
-
The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
-
I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really.
-
Together we are building a new Mexico.
-
I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.
-
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
-
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
-
How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
-
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
-
I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.
-
I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people got more invested as the show has gone on. That really does help keep shows on the air.
-
Yeah, I'm a physical kind of guy. I've always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, 'Look, we don't want you to do this. No, no, I'm serious, you're not going to do this' to get me not to do my stuff.
-
Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.
-
I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.
-
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
-
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
-
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
-
The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
-
After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.
