26 Quotes by C. S. Lewis about religion
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If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
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The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
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In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
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A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
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The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
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To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
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