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
- The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
- I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
- Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.
- The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
- It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
- Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
- We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
Best Quotes
- We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
- You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
- He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
- I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine.
- When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had.'
- A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
- Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
- I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.