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wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. C. S. Lewis
wisdom holy-places burning
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
wisdom thinking differences
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
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. C. S. Lewis
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell. C. S. Lewis
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted. C. S. Lewis
wisdom gaps different
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
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? C. S. Lewis
religious real mean
Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction Becca Fitzpatrick
religious responsibility essence
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. B. R. Ambedkar
religious prayer years
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. Bill Shuster
religious dirty alliances
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. Bhagat Singh
religious men people
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all. C. S. Lewis
religious philosophical emotional
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in. C. S. Lewis
religious thinking mouths
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly. C. S. Lewis
religious reading reality
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience. C. S. Lewis
religious insanity knows
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. C. S. Lewis
compassion easy human message respond run sympathy takes
Our message is one of sympathy and compassion. This takes human compassion to respond to this kind of devastation. We are in this for the long run and there are no easy fixes. David Smith
compassion social spirit
Our spirit is to be considerate and have compassion for people. It's a social responsibility. Alan Wong
compassion darkness destroy dispel lamp light wisdom within
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. Bhagavad Gita
compassion arms doe
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? Antoine de Saint-Exupery
compassion resistance aspect
Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion. Bill Ferguson
compassion giving might
The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral. Carl Safina
compassion perspective giving
Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective. Bethany Hamilton
compassion feels lack total
It feels like a total lack of compassion. A total lack of humanity. Susan Adams
compassion foolish love shape
It is foolish to try to shape the World; shape yourself as the embodiment of Peace, Love and Reverence. Then you will see all as Love, Compassion and Humility. Atharva Veda