C. S. Lewis God quotes
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God Quotes
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.God Pain Pleasure
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.God Religion
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.God
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presenceGod Religion
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.God Belief
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.God Life Peace Short
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.God Love Short Feeling
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.God
All C. S. Lewis quotes ⇑
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.Truth Belief
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.Life Time Future
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.Courage
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.Advice Book Reading Literature
Now, the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.Witty Humor
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.Desire World
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.Book Reading
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.Funny God
Things never happen the same way twice.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.Book Reading
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.Happiness Pain Past
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.Perspective Personality Perception
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.Education Short
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.Family Humor
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.Faith God
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.Friendship Silence Meditation
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.Imagination Advice Writing
The death of a beloved is an amputation.Death Short
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.Love Fear
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.Religion Earth
I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.Happiness Religion Comfort
Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.Friendship Love Truth
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.Short Fear
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.Pleasure
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.Humor Women
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.Reading
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.Life Universe
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.Heart Action Feeling
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!
He's not safe, but he's good (About Aslan, the Lion)
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.