"What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of whi...
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
More C. S. Lewis quotes
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
"Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...
"Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
"Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gen...
"destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which t...
"The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whicheve...
"I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the good will and honesty of my be...
"But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference...
"At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. ...
"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and sponta...
"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...
"The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
"It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power m...
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.