C. S. Lewis Quotes

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that science will or should ever admit. We believers mean something different by the word: something that puts faith permanently in the category of irreproducible results.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

How wonderful it is that we believe in modern revelation. I cannot get over the feeling that if revelation were needed anciently, when life was simple, that revelation is also needed today, when life is complex. There never was a time in the history of the earth when men needed revelation more than they need it now.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.