Quotes from CS Lewis
Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.
- CS Lewis
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
- CS Lewis
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
- CS Lewis
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
- CS Lewis
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.
- CS Lewis
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- CS Lewis
Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
- CS Lewis
I want God, not my idea of God.
- CS Lewis
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
- CS Lewis
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
- CS Lewis
God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!
- CS Lewis
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
- CS Lewis