C. S. Lewis Quotes

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

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.

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

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

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Faith is Doubt.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.