C. S. Lewis Quotes

I'm a literalist. I believe what people say. When they say it, I think they mean it.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Ultimately, it is only the witness who convinces people, not the teacher.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

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

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence.

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

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

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