C. S. Lewis Quotes

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war. Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

It doesn't matter if I hit a home run. It doesn't matter if we win a game. It doesn't matter if I go four for four. Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no temple, no church - because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church. The happy person has nothing like religious activity because his whole life is religious.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.