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C. S. Lewis Quotes

C. S. Lewis quotes about god

British Author, Writer November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963

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We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented? C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there..."
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth..."
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. C. S. Lewis
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. C. S. Lewis
The gods never send us this invitation to delight so readily or so strongly as when they are preparing some new agony. We are their bubbles; they blow us big before they prick us. C. S. Lewis
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should..."
A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her. C. S. Lewis
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man, the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock... the trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God in the dock. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience,..."
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. C. S. Lewis
I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him (what would seem so necessary for the first Christian theologian) that of lucidity and orderly exposition. C. S. Lewis
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others... but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped... C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the..."
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Pain is God's megaphone"
Pain is God's megaphone C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God..."
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man."
I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man. C. S. Lewis

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