C S Lewis Mere Christianity Quotes

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

Sheila Walsh

#2. Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

Sri Chinmoy

#3. 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

#4. Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

C.S. Lewis

#5. 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

#6. In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

Matthew Arnold

#7. Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

Michael Korda

#8. I am not concerned at present with blame; I am trying to find out truth.

C.S. Lewis

#9. I despise that he knows it and I don't. Makes him the better man for her in this situation. I want to be the better man for her in every situation.

Karen Marie Moning

#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. Love is the great conqueror of lust.

C.S. Lewis

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

C.S. Lewis

#13. It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see.

Cecelia Ahern

#14. Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Margaret Of Valois

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Even Reverend Norkells urged her to spend less time in the stony darkness of the church and to "look for Christ in the life around her.

M.L. Stedman

#18. Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

C.S. Lewis

#19. 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

#20. This guy was flipping my bitch switch like nothing else.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein.

Jakob Bohme

#22. The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk.

C.S. Lewis