C.S. Lewis is a best-selling Christian writer and a professor of medieval English literature at Oxford and Cambridge universities. He is famously known for his best-selling children’s series, The Chronicles of Narnia. His gift for words lives on many of his works. C.S. Lewis quotes have the power to strengthen our faith and bring us spiritual inspiration.
Jeremiah Braudrick, from Norman, Oklahoma knows this better than anyone. As a Marine veteran, Brauderick was struggling with his faith. While on Facebook one day, he came across a random quote. It read: “I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity.” It was a C.S. Lewis quote.
The words stuck in Braudrick’s mind. “I heard a simple message,” he said in his Guideposts story. “Maybe my feelings of spiritual worthlessness weren’t the final word about me. Maybe I wasn’t the best judge of God’s attitude. Maybe I had a chance after all.”
As an infantryman who fought on the frontlines in WWI, Lewis understood the psychological wounds that soldiers carried with them. He also struggled with his faith as well, even turning his back on God for a long period of time. Because of this, Brauderick read even more of Lewis’ works, including Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy, Lewis’ spiritual autobiography. In it, Lewis talks about the moment he accepted God again. “Reading C. S. Lewis, I realized God… knows my faults and loves me anyway,” said Brauderick. “I’m a work in progress. God’s work in progress.”Brauderick is now a pastor and continues to use C.S. Lewis quotes and writing to bring himself and other spiritual inspiration.
Here are some of C.S. Lewis’s most profound quotes:
