Clive Lewis quotes
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
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?
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.