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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...

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

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they nev...

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C. S. LewisA Grief Observed

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...

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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It ...

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

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Un...

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Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrac...

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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it serio...

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It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways...

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Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question...

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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel...

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion...

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Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and...

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C. S. LewisLetters of C. S. Lewis

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than m...

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C. S. LewisLetters of C. S. Lewis

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on ...

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

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

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then f...

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

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those w...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally ...

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this ide...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowl...

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Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the prom...

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In other words, The­ol­ogy is prac­ti­cal: espe­cially now. In the old days, when there was less edu...

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I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who kno...

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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambi...

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If God annihilates or deflects or creates a unit of matter, He has created a new situation at that p...

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When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead

God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not ...

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try...

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

As someone has said "gods" is not really the plural of God; God has no plural.

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous indiv...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

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C. S. LewisThe Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the ...

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C. S. LewisThe Case for Christianity

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace."What a curious name!""Not half so curious as himse...

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C. S. LewisThe Chronicles of Narnia

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be pa...

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C. S. LewisThe Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for Go...

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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

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C. S. LewisThe Four Loves

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His b...

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I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no sh...

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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...

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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love ...

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But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies ha...

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Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that...

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The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea...

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Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across to the Lion. "Ple...

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Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy o...

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Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘C...

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For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you wh...

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His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically im...

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...

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C. S. LewisThe Problem of Pain

Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.

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C. S. LewisThe Problem of Pain

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order...

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their exi...

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

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C. S. LewisThe Weight of Glory

The divine is always abominable."Houses Under The Sea

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a ...

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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence ag...

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But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are m...

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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies t...

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I'm frequently asked, "Do you believe there's extraterrestrial intelligence?" I give the standard ar...

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Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it w...

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Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men...

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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than w...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord ...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This ...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the u...

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, ...

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whe...

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Cristo quería a los justos, habitaba las buenas conciencias, pertenecía a los hombres de bien, a la ...

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Carlos FuentesThe Good Conscience

He truly was a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things and in something to ...

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The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by light...

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If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicte...

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God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,...

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Dear God . . . the dread hour is nigh." - Jace Wayland

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopp...

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If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'becau...

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Cassandra ClareCity of Bones

Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.

GOD HAS NOT MERCY AND NOR WILL I' - The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, 4) by Cassandra Clare an...

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There are certain comforts of living here in Dubai, the comforts of so many mosques and so much good...

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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with ...

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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelair...

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On peut chercher dans Dieu le complice et l'ami qui manquent toujours. Dieu est l'éternel confident ...

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Charles BaudelaireIntimate Journals

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all ...

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All right, God, say that You are really there. You have put me in this fix. You want to test me. Sup...

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the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense