Quotes from C. S. Lewis

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

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.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

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.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.