Mere Christianity Quotes

“But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:love God feelings

“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:love kindness

“Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:life books learning experience

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:life light meaning universe

“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only man in the world.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:death

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:happiness good

“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...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:happiness God history

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:truth morality

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:truth religion despair comfort

“Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:knowledge education

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