C. S. Lewis Quotes

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

The fact that God knows everything does not mean that He is directly causing everything. He respects our freedom at our level. He makes it possible for us to act freely. If He didn't, we wouldn't act at all - we wouldn't be at all.

God does not play dice.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

God uses whoever he wants.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Man plans, but God decides.

God doesn’t want me to do this, so I can’t do what God doesn’t want me to do

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it would turn out, perhaps even including our having this conversation. The idea that he could both foresee the future and also give us spirit and free will to carry out our own desires becomes entirely acceptable.