C. S. Lewis Quotes About Christ

• To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Advice, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.127, HarperCollins UK

• The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

  C. S. Lewis

  Events, Stories, Earth

• The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving Up, Real, New Beginnings

• Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Dying, Christ

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christ, Offers

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.127, HarperCollins UK

• God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Men, Perfect

• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Religion, Church

• When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, World, Christ

• Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Want, Christ

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

• For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Iron, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

• Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Jesus, World

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.293, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Mean, Order

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Running, Loneliness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

  C. S. Lewis

  Looks, Christ, Thrown

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Passion, People

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

• The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

• The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Life Changing, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

• The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Self, Views

  BBC Radio Talk: "Beyond Personality -- Mere Men", Broadcast 21 March 1944, BBC Home Service Radio

• A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Knowing, Understanding

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

• There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Care, Christianity

  "The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

• Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

• The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Rose, Resurrection

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

• I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Needs, Christ, Grief Observed

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Church, Christ

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