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I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.


C.S. Lewis

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JEFFERSON BETHKE We kept saying, If you'll load the gun, we'll put it down.' It was a great win for us,
CATHERINE YOUNG Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
MALCOLM X Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my...
SHARON K. GARNER Making a journey into C.S. Lewis' quotes is like a journey into the most beautiful floral valley whi...
JOEY TALLADINO They were telling him to put the gun down.
LYNN HALLIBURTON How do YOU know what God meant? Did he whisper into your ear? Did he put the knife in your heart? Di...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be a...
COMPAY SEGUNDO With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are always people who will come to you and put a gun to your head and say 'I don't care what e...
JACK BUTLER Say you are well, or all is well with you,And God shall hear your words and make them true.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX [Benson] understands that we will sit down and talk, ... That is his desire as well. I'm pretty comf...
SAN ANTONIO Dad, I’m not at all sure I can follow you any longer in your simple Christian faith’ stated the ...
RUTH BELL GRAHAM HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better.
...
LEWIS...
WILLIAM NICHOLSON I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m...
NEIL GAIMAN I still hear your sea waves crashing, while I watch the cannons flashing, I clean my gun and dream o...
GLEN CAMPBELL We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind...
PHILIP ZALESKI Down the road, kids can hear their grandmothers and grandfathers talk.
LORRAINE JOHNSON Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answer...
N.T. WRIGHT I suggested in my last sermon that if Oolon Colluphid had tracked down the "God" who had left a mess...
ANDREW RILSTONE I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's bee...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again ...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN You sit down afterward and you talk about it. 'Well, what could I have done here?' ... He's like a m...
JOHN ROCKWELL Talk about gun safety. Communicate with them. Make your world part of their world everyday.
BOB ALONZO Chris, listen to me, put down the gun and let the marching band go. We'll play it off as a prank.
FRED WILLARD If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis...
THE WIZARD OF OZ The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. Everybody you talk to is sa...
CAROL BIEDRZYCKI Lower your phone bill; talk to God.
VIKRANT PARSAI There was some wind but after nine holes it seemed to die down a little and I managed to play well.
KJ CHOI [Raekwon] Aiyyo that's amazing, gun in your mouth talk, verbal foul hawk Connect thoughts to make my...
[RAEKWON] I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with ...
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER He placed a gun to his head and threatened to kill himself, yelling at the deputies to kill him. He ...
DAN NORRIS The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I&...
TIM BURTON God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" Th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS What i like about GOD is that He can let people laugh at you, and when they are done He now raise yo...
GOLDEN MASHEGO Well, God gave him to us. That's all the child wanted to hear.
BRENDA BALL I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper." The whole thing is strange. You hear the...
MICHAEL JACKSON My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It w...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to...
ELLEN HOPKINS Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gu...
SCOTT BAIO They give out loads and loads of information, and give you an opportunity to hear many experts who t...
KAREN HILL I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.
JIMMY FALLON I just talk to God, you know? In my prayers, I just talk to God.
JAMES MATHIS I knew immediately what was happening. I knew, oh my God, he's hit me on the back of the head with a...
JULIE ROBERTS A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.
RICHELLE MEAD Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
PROVERB If you don't want your children to hear what you're saying, pretend you're speaking directly to them...
UNKNOWN Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
ANNE SEXTON If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.
IYANLA VANZANT Nobody wants to hear it, but I am here now for the third time saying we have played well, we have cr...
MICK MCCARTHY Reyes, You're a Bum --- Cut off your legs and put prosthetics on ... I don't want to hear about stup...
JOSE REYES Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.
OLIVER CROMWELL Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.
LAURENCE FOX To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms but t...
DON SCHRADER I was excited to hear others talking of God. Most people in show business have some strong spiritual...
BEN HARNEY I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
CARL LEWIS To put him under the gun in his first game, Shea did well. We didn't really throw, but we didn't rea...
DOUG LUKE There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the map...
PHILLIPA SOO I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -...
GREG COOTSONA It seemed to work for her, not for me if I talk.
NINA ALIMPIC If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have...
HAL SPARKS God put me and these boys together, and by me doing what I did for them, I ended up saving my own li...
BARRY HUNTER I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fas...
JOSS WHEDON Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?
GERARD WAY Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, n...
BILLY CORGAN Lewis has good control and keeps the ball down in the strike zone.
GEORGE BECK The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do th...
PAMELA DRUCKERMAN I came around and he pointed the gun at me and said, 'Tell your friend he'd better hand over the mon...
GREG MADINGER If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have you...
JAMES WAN Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&...
EDDIE VAN HALEN "Talk to people about what they want to hear, and they'll stay for more. Talk to them about what you...
NABIL N. JAMAL Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. ...
HEDY LAMARR Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
ALBERTA HUNTER Since Monday, I've been talking and praying for that lady and I just had to talk to you and NBC 15 b...
JUDITH HUNTER Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear an...
JOHN PERRY BARLOW I don't have to put a gun in Robert Blake's hand to show he's responsible.
ERIC DUBIN Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now...
ED WOOD Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well...
DONALD RUMSFELD I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.
TOBA BETA Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the wo...
EDWIN H. STUART [C. S. Lewis] was leery of too many prayers that leave all the work to God and other people.
KATHRYN LINDSKOOG Talk to people about what they want to hear, and they'll stay for more. Talk to them about what you ...
NABIL N. JAMAL A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent...
RICHELLE MEAD I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother....
MARIE LU People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon ...
DONALD RUMSFELD The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of yo...
SHANNON L. ALDER I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
DAMIAN LEWIS Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.
BILLY SUNDAY I talk about hockey everyday. A lot of people don't want to hear it, but I talk about it anyway.
ANDY STRICKLAND Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
OLIVER CROMWELL Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry
OLIVER CROMWELL We want to talk to people and hear their concerns,
MARILYN ANDERSON I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are ...
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ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire.
C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
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