C. S. Lewis Quotes

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.

I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

... life falls into place only with God.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didnt create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

I feel the presence of God when I feel the essence of divinity in anything and everything around me.

Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.