Mere Christianity God Quotes

#1. As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

Bruce Campbell

#2. The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

John Abizaid

#3. Sometimes we miss the miraculous of all that we have been blessed with because we're so focused on the one thing we don't have. When this happens, we become disillusioned with all that we do have.

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. 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

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

C.S. Lewis

#6. I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled sweetly and told me how terrible and fucked-up I was were complete fuckups themselves.

John Elder Robison

#7. "Being most concerned with God's righteous judgments rather than the biased judgments of mere men, I have been standing...for the cause of Christ".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#8. Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

Patrick DeWitt

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she felt, for some reason which she could not define, that the incident was a secret too precious to share.

Ayn Rand

#12. Otter! Otter! Otter!
Don't lead cows to slaughter!
I love you, and I know
I should've told you soon-a
But you didn't buy the dolphin-safe tuna!

T.J. Klune

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense.

Stephen Fry

#16. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Mark Twain

#17. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.' - Matt. vi. 6.

Andrew Murray

#18. Success in any relationship or endeavor begins with trust.

S. Truett Cathy

#19. 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