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Faith Quotes by C. S. Lewis

38 Faith quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis links faith to action, urging us to follow Christ’s advice. He describes Christ’s death as a fresh start that restores our relationship with God, and warns that a rigid, overly spiritual stance can miss the material world He uses. He also notes that true love is a lasting conviction.

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We are what we believe we are.

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We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

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Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

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

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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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You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

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Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it…

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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

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If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out…

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“If 'All' --quite seriously all---'for love' is implicit in the Beloved's attitude, his or her love is not worth having. It is…

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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience…

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We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. No belief will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be…

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Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare…

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Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.…

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and…

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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they…

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To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that…

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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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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories…

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Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent…

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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with…

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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must…

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The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will…

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As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't…

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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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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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It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her…

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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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Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me…

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Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the…

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The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby,…

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We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the…

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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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God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was…

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To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying…

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The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A…

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To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be…

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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…

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…