C. S. Lewis Quotes

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

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• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Believe
  • Hard
  • I Believe

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nobody

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • High
  • Respect

• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Education
  • College
  • Wrestling

• I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Country
  • Proud
  • Attentions

• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Good
  • Proud

• The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Better
  • Start
  • Games

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• 'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Like
  • Blue

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Human
  • Innocent
  • Class

• The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • Desire

• Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Long
  • Fire
  • Clouds

• You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Barbie
  • Stick-figure
  • Silicone

• God's help, the love of the people, the strength of Denmark.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Ifs
  • Motive