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Religious Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
- If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned…
- You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.
- Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
- Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
- Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and…
- You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each…
- Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
- Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of…
- A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we…
- Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else…
- Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
- To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
- For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila