No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
Quote by C. S. Lewis
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
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C. S. Lewis Quotes
- There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.
- Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
- To love at all is to be vulnerable.
- No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
- I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.
- I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
Best Quotes
- Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
- A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
- Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
- War and Peace never stay at a moment.
- But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?