Best Mere Christianity Quotes

#1. True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.

Geoffrey Wood

#2. If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

J.C. Ryle

#3. As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

Francis Collins

#4. God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies.

C.S. Lewis

#5. In a revealed religion, silence with God has a value in itself and for its own sake, just because God is God. Failure to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the beloved, without doing anything, is to gouge the heart out of Christianity."10 Silent solitude makes true speech possible

Brennan Manning

#6. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

George MacDonald

#7. So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! Well, that's a noble thing to do, but a more solemn way is to see the Bible as not just a reading book, but a true practical book for true worshipers, and live it as such!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY

Sheila Walsh

#9. The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

C.S. Lewis

#10. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

C.S. Lewis

#11. A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

C.S. Lewis

#12. But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.

Wendell Berry

#13. We call a cancer bad, they would say, because it kills a man; but you might just as well call a successful surgeon bad because he kills a cancer.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

George Gordon Byron

#15. Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

Frank J. Tipler