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Mere Christianity by C.South. Lewis
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"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that business firm. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; y'all knew that those jobs needed doing and and so you are non surprised. Merely presently He starts knocking the house well-nigh in a manner that hurts abominably and does non seem to make whatever sense. What on earth is He upwardly to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra flooring there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"I am trying here to prevent anyone proverb the really foolish thing that people often say well-nigh Him: I'k prepare to accept Jesus as a corking moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing nosotros must not say. A human who was merely a homo and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a slap-up moral instructor. He would either exist a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this human was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You lot tin shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you lot can fall at his feet and phone call him Lord and God, only allow usa not come with whatever patronizing nonsense most his beingness a peachy man teacher. He has not left that open to the states. He did not intend to."
― C.South. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers virtually originality volition ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often information technology has been told earlier) you will, 9 times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"A proud man is always looking downwards on things and people; and, of form, as long as you are looking down, you cannot come across something that is above you."
― C.Southward. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"To accept Faith in Christ means, of class, trying to do all that He says. In that location would be no sense in proverb y'all trusted a person if you would non take his communication. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, information technology must follow that yous are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new fashion, a less worried way. Not doing these things in society to be saved, simply because He has begun to salve you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven every bit a reward for your actions, simply inevitably wanting to human action in a sure manner because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you lot."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we telephone call man history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will brand him happy."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"A silly idea is current that good people practise not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how potent it is... A man who gives in to temptation after v minutes just does not know what it would accept been similar an hr later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very lilliputian nigh badness. They have lived a sheltered life past ever giving in."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"If I discover in myself desires which nothing in this earth can satisfy, the merely logical explanation is that I was fabricated for another world."
― C.Southward. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Requite me all of you lot!!! I don't desire so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and then much of your work. I want Yous!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have non come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, simply to Impale IT! No half measures will do. I don't desire to only clip a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand information technology over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you a new self---in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall get your will. My heart, shall become your heart."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"As long equally you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is ever looking downward on thing and people: and, of course, equally long as you are looking down you cannot encounter something that is above you."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Cipher you have not given away will ever really be yours."
― C.Due south. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Your real, new cocky (which is Christ's and as well yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a skillful impression on other people until you end thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and fine art, no man who bothers nearly originality will ever be original whereas if you only try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, ix times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom, Give up yourself, and you will observe your existent self. Lose your life and you will salve it. Submit to death, expiry of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and expiry of your whole torso in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you volition find eternal life. Go on dorsum nil. Nothing that you have non given away volition be really yours. Zero in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and yous will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. Merely await for Christ and you volition find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
― C.Southward. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"When you fence confronting Him yous are arguing against the very ability that makes you able to argue at all: information technology is like cut off the branch yous are sitting on."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have plant out that it has no pregnant: just every bit, if at that place were no lite in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without pregnant."
― C.Southward. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."
― C.South. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next human being... Information technology is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."
― C.Due south. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"It may exist hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would exist a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs now. And yous cannot go on indefinitely being simply an ordinary, decent egg. We must exist hatched or go bad."
― C.South. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the give-and-take, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"The Christian says, 'Creatures are non born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, at that place is such a matter as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men experience sexual desire: well, there is such a affair every bit sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most likely explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but but to arouse information technology, to suggest the real thing. If that is and then, I must have care, on the ane hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are just a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the want for my truthful country, which I shall not notice till after death; I must never let information technology get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Knowledge tin last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come up and go... Merely, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need non mean ceasing to beloved. Love in this 2nd sense — beloved as distinct from "being in love" — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced past (in Christian wedlock) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God... "Existence in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in honey was the explosion that started information technology."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Exercise not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we practise this we find one of the bully secrets. When y'all are behaving equally if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him."
― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"I remember Christian teachers telling me long agone that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but non the sinner. ...I used to call up this a empty-headed, straw-splitting distinction: how could you detest what a man did and non hate the man? But years afterwards it occurred to me that at that place was ane human being to whom I had been doing this all my life -- namely myself. Yet much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty virtually it. In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Just considering I loved myself, I was lamentable to notice that I was the sort of human being who did those things."
― C.South. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"To what will you look for help if you lot will not expect to that which is stronger than yourself?"
― C.Due south. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"If you are a Christian you do non have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do accept to believe that the main indicate in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"This world is a groovy sculptor's store. We are the statues and at that place'south a rumor going effectually the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"The hope, made when I am in honey and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long every bit I alive, commits me to being true fifty-fifty if I cease to be in love. A hope must be most things that I can do, about actions: no i tin promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well hope to never take a headache or ever to feel hungry."
― C.Due south. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"God fabricated united states of america: invented the states as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and information technology would non run properly on anything else. Now God designed the homo automobile to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn down, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. In that location is no other. That is why it is just no practiced asking God to make u.s. happy in our ain way without bothering about religion. God cannot give usa a happiness and peace autonomously from Himself, because it is not there."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"If God 'foresaw' our acts, information technology would be very hard to understand how we could exist free not to do them. Merely suppose god is outside and higher up the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were whatsoever less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's deportment in just the same way--considering He is already in tomorrow and tin can simply sentinel you. In a sense, He does not know your activity till you have washed it: but the moment at which you take washed it is already 'NOW' for Him."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"In the aforementioned fashion a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, simply a human being is enabled to repent and option himself up and brainstorm over over again later each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the fourth dimension, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary expiry which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity"
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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