C. S. Lewis God Quotations

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

Continue seeking God with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

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

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

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

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

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.