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Religion Quotes by C. S. Lewis

106 Religion quotes by C. S. Lewis

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Either Jesus is the Son of God or a madman, and some say they have seen the Resurrection. Lewis points out that a humble, poor spirit can be nudged toward humility, while also warning that religion that does not improve people may make them worse. He stresses that true religion seeks a higher purpose beyond everyday goals.

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Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

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The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

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Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

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The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

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

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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

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Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

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We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

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I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit…

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If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

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We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

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The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends...

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To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

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If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to…

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The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself…

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A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people…

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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete,…

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To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to…

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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him…

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Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in…

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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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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and…

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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why…

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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want…

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For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all…

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Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe…

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A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things…

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I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and…

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“But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis…

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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.…

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Christianity is a fighting religion.

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Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

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The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

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

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The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…