C. S. Lewis Quotes about Atheist

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

C. S. Lewis

God, Christian, Atheist

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Views, Christian Inspirational

"The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C. S. Lewis

God, Wisdom, Atheist

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

C. S. Lewis

God, Atheist, Literature

"Unseen CS Lewis letter defines his notion of joy" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2014.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

C. S. Lewis

Wisdom, Atheist, Home

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Zoos, Lying

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Reading, Men

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Flower, Atheism

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Atheist, Mistake

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Dark, Simple

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Night, England

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Cutting, Atheism

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Atheist, Looks

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Reading, Men

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, People, Opiates

I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Creating, Religion

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Lying, Waiting

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Men, Brave

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt