C. S. Lewis Quotes About Creation

• For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Giving, Creation

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Majesty, Way, Taught

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Musician, Poet

• When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

  C. S. Lewis

  Should Have, Perfect, Firsts

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.43, Harper Collins

• What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Struggle, Fate, Opportunity

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

• The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ethos, Law, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.100, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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