C. S. Lewis Quotes

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • First

• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • River

• When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Everything
  • Normal

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Want
  • Dating

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Political
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Look
  • Musicians
  • Infinity

• What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Matter

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • True
  • Want
  • Couple

• I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • School
  • Football
  • Player

• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Believe
  • Morning
  • Lion

• I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Worry
  • Dog
  • Pet

• I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I was a trampoline gymnast. I had actually won nationals in my age group. So it was like one of those perfect, unbelievable miracles.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
  • Age
  • Perfect

• For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Long
  • Marriage
  • Diamond

• It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • God
  • Die
  • Problem

• If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus. Nothing is going to happen - ever - that will catch Jesus Christ by surprise. He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
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  • Help