Mere christianity by C.S.LEWIS
Somme phrases that I would like to share:
*It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.
*But one fault is not mended by adding another: unchastity is not improved by adding perjury.
*But Pride is always enmity - it is enemity. ... The real black diabolical Pride comes when you look down the others so much that you dont care what they think of you.
*When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at hte moment, whats is going on.
*There would be non sens in saying you trust a person if you would not take his advice.
*In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with a very few simples ideas about God. But it is not so now.
*We have not go to try to climb up into spiritual life by our own afforts; it has already come down into human race.
*At first it is natural for a baby to take its mother's milk without knowing its mother. It is equally natural for us to see the man who helps us without seeing the Christ behind him.
*If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddeness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding.
*A mother teaches her baby to talk by talking to it as if it understood long before it really does.
*Lazzines mans more works in the long run. [...] The cowardly thing is almost always the most dangerous thing.
*Aim at Heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you will get neither.
*In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares, while remaining one cube.
*God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.
*To shrink back from plan is not humility; it is laziness et cowardice.
*Just as sunlight, thought it has no favorites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.
*It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.
*But one fault is not mended by adding another: unchastity is not improved by adding perjury.
*But Pride is always enmity - it is enemity. ... The real black diabolical Pride comes when you look down the others so much that you dont care what they think of you.
*When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at hte moment, whats is going on.
*There would be non sens in saying you trust a person if you would not take his advice.
*In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with a very few simples ideas about God. But it is not so now.
*We have not go to try to climb up into spiritual life by our own afforts; it has already come down into human race.
*At first it is natural for a baby to take its mother's milk without knowing its mother. It is equally natural for us to see the man who helps us without seeing the Christ behind him.
*If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddeness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding.
*A mother teaches her baby to talk by talking to it as if it understood long before it really does.
*Lazzines mans more works in the long run. [...] The cowardly thing is almost always the most dangerous thing.
*Aim at Heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you will get neither.
*In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares, while remaining one cube.
*God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.
*To shrink back from plan is not humility; it is laziness et cowardice.
*Just as sunlight, thought it has no favorites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.
He thought Christianity was too simple and there must be something more. He intellect would not let him believe. He is extremely smart and I could not convince him or explain to him the aspects of Chrisianity. Several friends recommended that he read Mere Christianity and that was what started his conversion.
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