C. S. Lewis Quotes

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Even God Almighty has only ten.

Alive they are worshipped for Gods…. There is no person that dare contradict them in anything …

Power belongs only to God.

Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

…the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.

I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

Only god can defeat or destroy.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

There is nothing god cannot do.

Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court? Isn't he miffed when someone he had always considered to be a true follower turns to the legal system rather than to prayer? Why would the faithful risk making God look ridiculous by losing a trial on Earth when he is certain to win every trial in heaven?

The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.