Sin Cs Lewis Quotes & Sayings

There are millions of stars, each one shining and burning out at the same time. They die like everything else - you have to appreciate them before they're gone — Anna Carey

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding. — Karl Pilkington

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do. — Jarvis Cocker

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse. — John Arlott

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil. — Anna Quindlen

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. — Jonathan Sacks

How do you tell your mom you're following your dream when it's the one that warned you to befriend a psychotic boy before he shoots up your school?
-- from the upcoming "Streaks of Blue — Jack Chaucer

I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial such as a fondness for county cricket or collecting stamps or drinking cocoa. Such things, I grant you, have nothing of virtue in them; but there is a sort of innocence and humility and self-forgetfulness about them which I distrust. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring twopence what other people say about it, is by that very fact fore-armed against some of our subtlest modes of attack. You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the "best" people, the "right" food, the "important" books. — C.S. Lewis

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing. — Paul Thomas Anderson

In any case it pleased him to imagine himself secretly in league with secret beings who appreciated the finer things in life, like the way the sunlight this afternoon broke itself into pieces in the dark waters of the creek, never or be reassembled. — Douglas Watson

His conversion to Christianity seems to have come about largely by thinking...It did not come by sudden intuition, or overwhelming vision, or even by the more usual path of conviction of sin calling for repentance and atonement. — Jocelyn Gibb

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on. — Edward T. Welch

The primary function of mental pain, says Lewis, is to force our misdirectedness on our attention. But just as it belongs to our fallen state to be blind to holiness until we suffer the consequences of sin, and blind to a higher good until natural satisfactions are snatched from us; so equally it belongs to our state that we cannot achieve disinterestedness until it costs us pain. — Jocelyn Gibb

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled. — Steven Magee

I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But today, there is degree of caution around capitalism. We believe in compassionate capitalism. Growth for growth's sake can never be an end in itself. — Kumar Mangalam Birla