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God Quotes by C. S. Lewis

67 God quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis portrays God as a relentless love that keeps trying to heal us despite our faults. He describes God as a dynamic, almost dancing activity that can catch us off guard. The quotes also question how we understand God's power and the nature of Jesus.

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The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

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As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

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God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

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In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

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God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

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I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

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In worship, God imparts himself to us.

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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do…

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I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

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Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just…

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From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God…

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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price…

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The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has…

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“It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive…

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God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not…

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Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man…

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The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.…

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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires,…

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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what…

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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second…

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“On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean…

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Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

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A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

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I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

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Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

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I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

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We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

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You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,

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He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

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“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”

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Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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