Mere Christianity Quotes

“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

“Your real, new self . . . will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:self faith

“repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself,...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:self will

“As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:self God humility

“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:God thinking

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:strength humility

“When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:power

“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:religion war comfort

“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

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