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Apr 30, 2014 · C.S. Lewis Quotes on God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” ― C.S. Lewis
- To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. C. S. Lewis. Forgiveness, God, Christian.
- I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis. Faith, God, Christian.
- The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. C. S. Lewis. God, Christian, Thinking.
- He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only. C. S. Lewis. God, Christian, Theologian.
- C. S. Lewis
- 1952
- “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.
- “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.
- “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
- “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
- “Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him.
- “It may be a great advance in knowledge not to believe in witches: there is no moral advance in not executing them when you do not think they are there.
- “If we ask: ‘Why ought I to be unselfish?’ and you reply ‘Because it is good for society,’ we may then ask, ‘Why should I care what’s good for society except when it happens to pay me personally?’
- “The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost.
- When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. C. S. Lewis. Running, Crazy, Mistake.
- You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C. S. Lewis. Where You Are.
- Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. C. S. Lewis. Difficulty, Immunity.
- 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. C. S. Lewis.
Jan 30, 2024 · C.S. Lewis Quotes about God. 1. “The place for which He designs them in His scheme of things is the place they are made for. When they reach it their nature is fulfilled and their happiness attained: a broken bone in the universe has been set, the anguish is over.”. — The Problem of Pain. 2.
Nov 29, 2018 · Quotes on Christianity. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”. – C.S. Lewis. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”. – C.S. Lewis.
