Christian Quotes by C. S. Lewis

77 Christian quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s prose invites readers into a conversation about God, doubt, and wonder. This larger set highlights his ability to argue for faith while delighting the imagination.

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

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When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

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

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Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

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

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A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

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

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The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation…

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God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

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The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

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The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things…

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In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the…

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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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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were…

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I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray…

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We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect…

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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either…

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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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I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution…

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Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it…

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Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group…

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Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in…

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On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can…

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Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the…

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A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in…

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Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,…

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Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental…

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Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the…

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The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to…

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When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters…

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If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time…

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Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

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Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

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According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

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

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True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

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How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

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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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