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Quotes, aphorisms, famous sentences
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All the quotes (8441)
All that we call human history- money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery- [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. C.S. Lewis - Foreword to Joy Davidman's Smoke on the Mountain
The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe. C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that. C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
This act of self-will on the part of the creature, which constitutes an utter falseness to its true creaturely position, is the only sin that can be conceived as the Fall. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... C.S. Lewis - A Christian Reply to Professor Price' Phoenix Quarterly
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain (200)
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