Will Lewis
Will Lewis
William Lewis or Willie Lewis may refer to:...
want
Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.
christian mean people
Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.
art taken mean
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
heart giving people
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.
philosophy needs reason
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
christian believe praying
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
lost-love love-is hatred
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.
atheist night england
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
hurt kindness real
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.
inspirational pain stains
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
doubt modern no-doubt
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
life encouraging not-giving-up
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
nice house atheism
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
inspirational marriage joy
Joy is the serious business of heaven.