C. S. Lewis Quotes

The groves were God's first temples.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.