C. S. Lewis Quotes

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

I don't attend [church] regularly.

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

Went to church and fasted all day.

There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of you parents, you couples, have lost that essential moment of kneeling together at the end of the day, just the two of you, holding hands and saying your prayers. If that has slipped away from your daily routine, may I suggest you put it back-beginning tonight!

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

There's a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

I never went to church when I was in college, either.

Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach the poor, but really our dedication has to be born out of an infatuation with Jesus.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

I think its good to worship as a family but its also important to worship as an individual.

I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.