C. S. Lewis Quotes About Knowing God

• When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Character, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.23, Harper Collins

• I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Thinking, Sick

• If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Atheism, Answers

• As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Sin Of Pride, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Christianity, Know Yourself

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.109, HarperCollins UK

• Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer
  Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fall, Heaven, Earth

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