Quotes from CS Lewis
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
- CS Lewis
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
- CS Lewis
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
- CS Lewis
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
- CS Lewis
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
- CS Lewis
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
- CS Lewis
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
- CS Lewis
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
- CS Lewis
God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
- CS Lewis
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
- CS Lewis
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
- CS Lewis
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
- CS Lewis