Quotes by Needs The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. C. S. Lewis statesgivingneeds The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture. C. S. Lewis culturewayneeds Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. C. S. Lewis repentgood-personneeds When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little. C. S. Lewis givingneedsthinking I need Christ, not something that resembles Him. C. S. Lewis grief-observedneedschrist Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? C. S. Lewis humilitymenneeds What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you...We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly. C. S. Lewis religiousinspirationalneeds Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all. C. S. Lewis comfortgivingneeds Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want C. S. Lewis givingneedsthinking It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need. C. S. Lewis would-benumbersneeds I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. C. S. Lewis doesleepneeds We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection. C. S. Lewis despairperfectionneeds Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future. C. S. Lewis studypastneeds After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required. C. S. Lewis errorstemptationneeds One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. C. S. Lewis specialchristianneeds God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. C. S. Lewis perfectorderneeds Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life. C. S. Lewis acceptedneedsjesus So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man. C. S. Lewis sufferingmenneeds Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own. C. S. Lewis journeyuseneeds So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Caio Fonseca paintingwallneeds«101102103104105106107108109110111»
