Mere Christianity Quotes

“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

“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:loneliness despair

“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:war forgiveness

“A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:action feeling

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