God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image