C. S. Lewis Quotes About God
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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.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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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.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
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Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.
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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 and for his sake became man and died.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
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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.
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
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The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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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?
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It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
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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.
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Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
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For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
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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.
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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.'
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