Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

C. S. Lewis

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

C. S. Lewis

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

C. S. Lewis

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

C. S. Lewis

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

C. S. Lewis

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

C. S. Lewis

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

C. S. Lewis

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Bryant H. McGill

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

Bryant H. McGill

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

Bryant H. McGill

As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!

Celine Dion

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

Celine Dion

Near, far wherever you are...you're here in my heart.

Cesar Millan

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

Cesar Chavez

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

Cesar Chavez

Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same protection as others - I don['t care whether you call it capitalism or communism -it is not going to work. Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counterpower, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

Cesar Chavez

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

Catherine Martin

Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart.

Catherine McAuley

Our hearts can always be in the same place, centered on God.

Catherine McAuley

We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.

Catherine McAuley

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.

Carson Daly

I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. I say this as I'm wearing Adidas sweatpants and a ten-year-old Chrome Hearts T-shirt.

Carroll O'Connor

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

Carson McCullers

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

Carson McCullers

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

Carol Berg

So what is this feadnach? Is it another curse that makes me beholden to slaves and shrews?' 'No, my lord. It is your heart. Difficult as it may be to comprehend, there is a possibility you may have one.

Alan Keyes

Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world.

Alan Keyes

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Alan Keyes

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Alan Lightman

When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.

Alan Furst

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended,

Alain de Botton

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.