Quotes from C. S. Lewis

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

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.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

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.

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

I want God, not my idea of God.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

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.

God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!

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.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?