Christianity Quotes by C.S. Lewis

67 Christianity quotes by C.S. Lewis

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Lewis’s sixty‑seven reflections weave storytelling flair with deep spiritual thought, offering both comfort and challenge. Whether you know him from Narnia or his apologetics, this selection showcases the breadth of his Christian imagination.

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“You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.”

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“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.”

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“That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed.”

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“Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home is good actions, or Faith in Christ.”

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“It is a Christian duty, as you know, for every-one to be as happy as he can.”

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“A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.”

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“God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we…

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“I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him…

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“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are…

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“Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it…

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“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either…

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“The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed…" I suppose it…

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“Putting on Christ'...is not one among many jobs a Christian has to do; and it is not a sort of special exercise…

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“If on such grounds, or on better ones, we follow the course in which humanity has been led, and become Christians, we…

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“You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and…

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“The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of…

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“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as…

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“Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And…

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“The idea . . . that Christianity brought a new ethical code into the world is a grave error. If it had…

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“Christianity is not the promulgation of a moral discovery. It is addressed only to penitents, only to those who admit disobedience to…

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“Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I…

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“All the essentials of Hinduism would, I think, remain unimpaired if you subtracted the miraculous, and the same is almost true of…

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“But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in…

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“I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality,…

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“No doubt he must very soon realize that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the…

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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival…

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“But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in…

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“In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was…

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“Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes…

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“If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that…

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“Already the new men are dotted here and there all over the earth. Some, as I have admitted, are still hardly recognisable:…

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“The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is…

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“The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be…

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“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or…

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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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“I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the…

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“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen…

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“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin...…

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“The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce…

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“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought…

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“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a…

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“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es…

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“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could…

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“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.…

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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

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“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are…

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“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the…

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“If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in…

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“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the…

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