C. S. Lewis Quotes About Miracles

• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Miracle

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reading, Miracle, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Giving, Miracle

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Faith, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

• Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Miracle, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

• Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miracle, Ordinary, Extraordinary

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Osiris, Order

• Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, Miracle

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Miracle, Matter

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

• The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Miracle

  C. S. Lewis (2011). “Miracles”, HarperCollins UK

• But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miracle, Risk, Majority

• We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miracle, Facts, Treatment

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.140, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Miracle, Mind

• All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miracle, Being True, Humans

• The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

• We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Miracle, Christianity

• The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Past, Guiding Principles

• Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, Book, Cutting

• If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Men, Miracle

• Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Miracle, Dying

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

• Miracles are for beginners.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miracle, Beginners

• Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Omnipotence, Miracle

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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