C. S. Lewis Quotes

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

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• Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Character
  • Question
  • Christian

• Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • World
  • School
  • Faith

• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Blood
  • Old
  • England

• If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • You
  • Unique
  • Voice

• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Only
  • Easter

• We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Friends
  • Hope
  • Tools

• I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

  

  T-Pain
  • Myself
  • Rest
  • Treat

• Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Generation

• I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Country
  • Heart

• I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Up
  • Smile
  • Jump

• Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • People
  • Better
  • Issue

• Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.

  

  Ovid

• To have simple structures and organizations with minimal hierarchical levels, with human development and in house training of executive functions. To have flexibility and speed in making decisions. Operating with the advantages of the small business, which are what comprise big businesses.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • House
  • Small

• The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Moving

• From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

  

  Arthur Wing Pinero
  • Heart

• All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Death
  • Black

• Lleve cada uno su culpa y no habrá culpables.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • American

• Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a 'battered wasteland' where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Power
  • Help

• Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Money
  • Running
  • Office

• I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • Romance
  • Hook

• I went off. They were unforced turnovers, too.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Turnovers
  • Went off
  • Unforced

• In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

  

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