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

• I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Day
  • Like
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• 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
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• The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

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

  

  Gary Herbert
  • People
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• 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
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• 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
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• I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

  

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

  

  Arthur Wing Pinero
  • Heart

• 'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • Great

• Actually, it's pretty enjoyable. Playing in a new place every year you get to experience something new, and in this game you definitely don't want to go back to where you were the year before.

  

  Ian Kinsler
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Playing

• Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • I Think
  • Relation
  • Groups

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

  

  C. S. Lewis