Quotes by Mind The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. C. Northcote Parkinson mindeducationbook You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. C. S. Lewis always-tryingmindlong No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly C. S. Lewis minddoeneeds We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed. C. S. Lewis alivemindbelieve They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out. C. S. Lewis takenbeliefmind A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep. C. S. Lewis sittingprayermind One always feel better when one has made up one's mind. C. S. Lewis feel-bettermademind Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this. C. S. Lewis cuttingkingsmind It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. C. S. Lewis donemindreality We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us. C. S. Lewis perfectmindreality Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind. C. S. Lewis devilpridemind Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. C. S. Lewis knowingmindpeople The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. C. S. Lewis humanspraisemind If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured. C. S. Lewis crimediseasemind The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind. C. S. Lewis moralmindwriting The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum. C. S. Lewis colormindsky The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience. C. S. Lewis perfectionmindideas Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. C. S. Lewis realmindheaven For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands. C. S. Lewis lastsglorymind I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't. C. S. Lewis hatemindpeople«979899100101102103104105106107»
