C. S. Lewis Quotes About Religion

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  To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian
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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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK
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  He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Religion, Done

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

• Do not dare not to dare.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Religion, Dare

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Encouraging, Not Giving Up

• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Happiness, Religious

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

• I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Religious, Secret

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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  I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Sad

• 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

• It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Sex, Children

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

• The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian Inspirational, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Die before you die, there is no chance after.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Chance, Dies

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

  C. S. Lewis

  Family, Friends, Careers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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  Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Clever, Live Life

• The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Rights, Religion

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Eye, Dark

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Dark, Simple

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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