C. S. Lewis Quotes About Understanding

• 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

• If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Humility, Omnipotence

• The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Understanding

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were, one corner of the curtain that hides its mystery, and reveals, in a burst of delight which later and fuller understanding can hardly ever equal, one glimpse of the indefinite possibilities within.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Men, Understanding

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

• As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Understanding, Victory

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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