Contact
Privacy
Book: Mere Christianity
Quotes of Book: Mere Christianity
TOP TAGS :american-historysteppenwolffloormoral-valuestruceignoringdisciplinedisagreement

  1. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not made, which always existed and always will exist. Christ is the Son of God. If we share in this kind of life we also shall be sons of God. We shall love the Father as He does and the Holy Ghost will arise in us. He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has - by what I call "good infection." Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
    book-quote

  2. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
    book-quote

  3. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
    book-quote

  4. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
    book-quote

  5. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Everyone there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes. But this is near the stage where the road passes over the rim of our world. No one's eyes can see very far beyond that: lots of people's eyes can see further than mine.
    book-quote

  6. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.
    book-quotewaitingtiming

  7. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.
    book-quote

  8. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
    book-quotecharitywillpowerconsequences

  9. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
    book-quote

  10. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be the centre - wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race. Some people think the fall of man had something to do with sex, but that is a mistake...what Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they 'could be like Gods' - could set up on their own as if they had created themselves - be their own masters - invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come...the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
    book-quotehuman-nature

  11. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.
    book-quoteinspirational

  12. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
    book-quote
Categories