C. S. Lewis Quotes

There's good things about going to church.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

The Church should not be confused with religion.

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

I was always laughing in church.

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

Going to a bar or pool hall doesn’t mean you’re a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn’t make you a chicken. It’s the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesn’t make you a follower of Christ.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

Remember to pray fervently.

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand.