C. S. Lewis Quotes

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.

For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

Life ,for eternal us,is now

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone.

To God, all things are present; there is no past or future - it is all now.

I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'

I believe in time and in God. Nothing else bothers me.

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now.

Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.