“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
More from C.S. Lewis on Faith
“Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.”
“Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.”
“In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.”
“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
“Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.”
“Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.”
“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.”
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."”
“Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.”
Others on Faith
Elizabeth George
30 quotes“God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.”
Saint Augustine
27 quotes“Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
John Piper
27 quotes“The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature”
Billy Graham
26 quotes“Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.”
Rick Warren
24 quotes“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24 quotes“May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.”
A.W. Tozer
22 quotes“As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God....”
John Calvin
21 quotes“True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.”
Charles Spurgeon
20 quotes“Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?”
Max Lucado
17 quotes“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”
Joel Osteen
16 quotes“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”
Joyce Meyer
14 quotes“The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.”