C. S. Lewis Quotes

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.

It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it!

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

We [the clergy] have a threefold responsibility to people: get them baptized, get them saved and get them registered to vote.

No political leader deserves the allegiance of what he never created. I can only give my allegiance to the one God. So when my President calls I don’t jump. If his call is not in accordance with the call of God, I do not answer.

The Church not only prescribes for her children to obey state power regardless of the convictions and faith of its bearers, but also prays for it.

Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to recognize his voice, to follow him, faithfully and with full awareness, on the pastures of eternal life.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them.

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.