Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

C. S. Lewis

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

C. S. Lewis

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

C. S. Lewis

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

C. S. Lewis

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

C. S. Lewis

The absent are easily refuted.

C. S. Lewis

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

C. S. Lewis

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Bryant H. McGill

Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

Albert Einstein

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Alexander Hamilton

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Adrian Cronauer

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Cynthia Ozick

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

Charles B. Rangel

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

Blaise Pascal

If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it.

Awilda Cordero

She's going to be looking like the little girl making her first Communion that she should have been.

John Browning

Many people saw on the frontier that communion should be open to anyone,

Greg Boyle

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.

Thomas Shepard

Those only who are ready and prepared in this life for Christ, shall enjoy eternal and immediate communion with Christ.

Paul Weller

Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.

Charles Spurgeon

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus.

Carlton Cuse

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

Lynsey Addario

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.