C. S. Lewis Quotes

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

We have God's joy in our blood.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.

The smile of God is the goal of your life.

To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.