I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
Quote by Clive Staples Lewis
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I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
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Clive Staples Lewis Quotes
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
- Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
- Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
- Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
- Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.
- I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Best Quotes
- Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- Music is my religion.
- We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
- The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
- There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
- It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
- I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.