C. S. Lewis Quotes

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Respect and fear are two different things.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Nothing's too good for the Lord.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us.

Nothing scares me but God.

The beginning of wisdom is fear.

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.

I am only scared of God.