C. S. Lewis Quotes

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Man makes holy what he believes.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.