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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Faith

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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Faith, Believe, People

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.

Faith, God, Christian

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Faith, Religious, Catholic

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Inspirational, Life, Faith

[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.

Faith, Mean, Order

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

Faith, Religion, Answers

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

Faith, Godly, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

Faith, Wisdom, Important

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

Faith, Men, Thinking

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

Faith, Inspiration, Years

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Faith, Inspiration, Religion

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Faith, Believe, Knows

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

Faith, Inspiration, Evil

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.31, Harper Collins

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

Faith, Country, Inspiration

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

Faith, Blessed, Inspiration

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

Faith, Reading, Character

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

God, Faith, Real

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

Faith, Inspiration, Mean

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.117, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Faith, Men, Perfect

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

God, Faith, Christian

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

Faith, Spiritual, Inspiration

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

Faith, Baby, Inspiration

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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