C.S. Lewis Quotes - Page 5

[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted-i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk-don't keep on looking at it.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.