C. S. Lewis Quotes

“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:religion reason

“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:religion belief

“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.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:world desire satisfaction

“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:evil

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:evil madness faith

“Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:reason faith

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:change learning

“Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:belief trust

“Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a short cut to the nearest chemist's shop.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:society faith

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