Author	Thread: Quotes from C.S.Lewis "Mere Christianity"
Admin	Quotes from C.S.Lewis "Mere Christianity" Posted : 27 Feb, 2011 05:05 PM "The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..." "Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..." "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." "The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe." "The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self�all your wishes and precautions�to Christ." "[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that." "If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying." "Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self..." "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..." "When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all." "You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house." "There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails...If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft." "Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable." "All that we call human history�money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery�[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." Post Reply
View Profile History	Quotes from C.S.Lewis "Mere Christianity" Posted : 27 Feb, 2011 05:52 PM Hmmm...did Margo tell you I am a big fan of C.S.Lewis? I am surprised that you would quote him. Are you aware of his postion on Calvinism? It is very similar if not the same as mine. Post Reply
View Profile History	Quotes from C.S.Lewis "Mere Christianity" Posted : 27 Feb, 2011 05:58 PM Twosparrows, I have 26 books by Lewis in my library. I have more books by him than any other author. I am well aware that he was an Arminian. He has changed his mind on that now........ I don't read Lewis for doctrine or theology. Lewis is the most influential Christian writer of the 20th century. I think for apologetics, and Christian living, and other subjects, he is just top notch. I am a big fan of Lewis, and he is without a doubt my favorite Arminian. In Christ, James Post Reply
View Profile History	Quotes from C.S.Lewis "Mere Christianity" Posted : 27 Feb, 2011 06:12 PM "I am well aware that he was an Arminian. He has changed his mind on that now........" :ROFL: Post Reply
MargoSolo View Profile History	Quotes from C.S.Lewis "Mere Christianity" Posted : 27 Feb, 2011 06:17 PM Nope, I had no idea you two had something in common. Post Reply