C. S. Lewis Quotes

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Christ died for the truth.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

Mark this, you that despise and oppose the Message of the Lord God that he sends by Women; What had become of the Redemption of the whole Body of Mankind, if they had not cause to believe the Message that the Lord Jesus sent by these Women

John Lewis is a Christ-loving fool.

Christ is dead and his teachings moribund.