Quotes from CS Lewis
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
- CS Lewis
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
- CS Lewis
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
- CS Lewis
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
- CS Lewis
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
- CS Lewis
I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.
- CS Lewis
I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.
- CS Lewis
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.
- CS Lewis
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
- CS Lewis
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
- CS Lewis
Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.
- CS Lewis
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
- CS Lewis