God love Quotes by C. S. Lewis

20 God love quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis’s twenty entries on God’s love weave literary elegance with theological depth. His nuanced phrasing invites both the scholar and the casual reader to linger on the mystery of divine affection.

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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.

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

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We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

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God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to…

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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do…

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

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If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is…

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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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There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or…

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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though…

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I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's…

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If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has…

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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want…

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Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have…

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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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A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.…

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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

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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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God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love…

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One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see…

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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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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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“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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