C. S. Lewis Quotes

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

I don't believe. I know.

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.

It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.

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.

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

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.

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

I realize that people need something to believe in.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

I do not believe...I know.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

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

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.