C. S. Lewis Quotes About Worship

• 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

• It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Worship, Process

• To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love You, Worship, Should

• It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

  C. S. Lewis

  One Day, Would Be, Serious Things

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

• The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Worship Music, Delight, Psalms

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

  C. S. Lewis

  Military, War, Thinking

• We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Worship Music, Presence Of God, Worship God

• The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Political, Worship

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

• In worship, God imparts himself to us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Worship, Worship God

• If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Symphony, Church

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reading, Eye, Night

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.141, Cambridge University Press

• ... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Thinking, Two

• Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Knowing, Individuality, Privilege

• To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Love You, Firsts

• The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Different, Gaps

• The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe, Worship, Assembly

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