C. S. Lewis Quotes

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

Let us realize the state we are in. Let us learn what needs to be learnt. Religion and God demand it.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus.

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened me up, hes got a little irreverency to him and I have a little too much reverancy.

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.