Atheist Quotes by C. S. Lewis

11 Atheist quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis, known for his theological work, also pens eleven concise thoughts on atheism. This small selection reveals his nuanced take, offering a quick, thoughtful glimpse.

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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert…

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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…

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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

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A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like…

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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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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…

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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not…

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Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that…

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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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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 if anyone…

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

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

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

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

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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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

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

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