10 C.S. Lewis Quotes from Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis is known as one of the great Christian thinkers of all time. His quotes and sayings are inspirational and powerful. C.S. Lewis talked about Christianity topics on the radio from 1941 to 1944. These radio broadcasts were adapted to a book called Mere Christianity. The following is ten great C.S. Lewis quotes from Mere Christianity.

10 Great C.S. Lewis Quotes from Mere Christianity

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.

The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or - if they think there is not - at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.

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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

"The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..."

"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."

"Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self..."

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."

"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."

"Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable."

These C.S. Lewis quotes from Mere Christianity are powerful and help to make you think. I pray that these quotes were what you were needing today. If you have any other favorite C.S. Lewis quotes, please add them to the comments of this article so this can be a better resource to those that find it.

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