Quotes from C. S. Lewis

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

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.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

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.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

In worship, God imparts himself to us.