C. S. Lewis Quotes

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

The expression of divinity is in variety.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

Freedom is found in pluralism.

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

We will have differences. Even in our own country we do not see everything alike. If we did, we would all want the same wife—and that would be a problem, wouldn't it!

One of my core values is diversity of everything.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I had a wonderful experience being Catholic.

The whole family, we are all kind of different.

Accept others for their differences, what makes them different. That's what makes the world the world.

People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great.

Diversity is what makes life interesting.