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Browsing Quotes With Tag: human-nature (3)

  • In our hearts, we want to believe in – and would choose – great accomplishment and virtue. That’s why our lies, particularly to ourselves, are so beautiful.

    Speaker: Brandon Sanderson
    Source: The Way of Kings
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    Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:34 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: human-nature, ideals, lies

  • The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you. And your natural self, which is thus being starved and hampered and worried at every turn, will get angrier and angrier. It is as though Jesus were saying to each of us: 'Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. . . .
    Hand over the whole natural self. . . . I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.' 

    Speaker: C. S. Lewis
    Source: Mere Christianity, page 166
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    Posted: 03 Sep 2009 at 2:14 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: human-nature
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  • “First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”

    Speaker: C.S Lewis
    Source: Mere Christianity, page 21
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    Posted: 03 Sep 2009 at 2:09 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: human-nature
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