C. S. Lewis Quotes

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.