C. S. Lewis Quotes

The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

I want to have a lasting experience of God.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford 'form without power,' for it creates Christians without purpose.