C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Quotes
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.
Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.
When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.
Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.
When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.