"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

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Source : C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

C. S. Lewis

#God Quotes #Faith Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Iâ€™m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobodyâ€™s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I wonâ€™t have it, okay?”
“The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.”
“I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.”

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“I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.”
“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.”
“The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.”
“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.”

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“If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.”

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