Millions of other people have also been greatly helped by his writings.

C s lewis mere christianity quotes background. Imagine yourself as a living house. Quite simply there was no mere christianity church indeed ker and i share the biographical distinction of reading and being inspired by lewis becoming anglican and then continuing the journey along to the catholic church. As a fairly new christian i was introduced to the great christian apologist c. That is why he uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us.

Quotes from mere christianity. His stance is of a moral law a rule about right and wrong commonly known to all human beings. At first perhaps you can understand what he is doing. Lewis almost 50 years ago.

In the preface to later editions of the book lewis described his intentions of avoiding contended theological doctrine focusing instead on foundational principles and applicable derivations. In the radio talks and the derived book mere christianity he articulated the congruous tenets of christian faith. Some absolute gems from the c. It means killing part of yourself under going a kind of death.

Repentance means unlearning all the self conceit and self will that we have been training ourselves into. Soon i had bought nearly all of his books and i devoured them eagerly. Lewis desk in his house mike blyth flickr 11 there is no good trying to be more spiritual than god. Lewis narrates the book and spends most of the story defending the christian faith on an argument based on morality a point which persuaded him from atheism to christianity.

Ian ker writes in an essay on lewis and the church that he found himself facing a dilemma of living the kind of christian life lewis prescribes. Lewis quote from mere christianity even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God comes in to rebuild that house.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours. Mere christianity quotes showing 1 30 of 707. Whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on.

You knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. In this quote lewis is making the distinction between feeling affectionately or fondly towards someone and what he defines as the christian understanding of love. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature.

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