C. S. Lewis Quotes

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.

If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you want to insist that what you are doing is the way it should be done, even when you are not getting anywhere, go right ahead. God will let you run yourself ragged, if you choose to do so. Unfortunately, you may not always be aware that you are in God's way. . . . God has no need to prove to you what God can do.

God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.

We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.

I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires and do what's in his or her best interest. To care for him or her even when there's nothing in it for us. To want that person's purity and holiness because it pleases God and protects him or her.

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.

There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds