C. S. Lewis Quotes

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus.

One of my passions is helping people understand the Word. I think the most important thing we should be thinking about is who created us and how we were created to live. So I thought that I want to spend a lot of my time actually studying God's Word.

To realize that I had been living a lie, to realize that I was unsatisfied and I would never be satisfied until I came to Jesus was so revolutionary to me that I wanted everyone to taste it. I wanted everyone to see how awesome God was.

I was raised Catholic, and I knew of Him and certainly what He did, but I never truly experienced knowing Him.

Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

I said, 'Okay, Jesus, I'll try you,' and I haven't looked back since.

If a man gave his life to the Lord, then he would have someone to walk through this life with.

I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope.

I found my identity in Christ. When everything else around me was falling down I found my identity in God.

Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were -- He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.