Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

C s lewis mere christianity quotes background. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on. Soon i had bought nearly all of his books and i devoured them eagerly. Lewis quote from mere christianity even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original. Lewis almost 50 years ago.

We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. 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. 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.

God comes in to rebuild that house. Along with his use of pithy and succinct language lewis was able to more nearly pertain and better appeal his subject to the commonly educated man who comprised the vast majority of his. He is not only drawing a sharp distinction here between emotions and actions but is making the claim that emotions are rather irrelevant in god s eyes in comparison to our actions. Mere christianity quotes showing 1 30 of 707.

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. 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. Imagine yourself as a living house.

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. Millions of other people have also been greatly helped by his writings. Some absolute gems from the c. 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.

Quotes from mere christianity. Book two of mere christianity is largely concerned with the christian definition of god the almighty being who creates the moral law as discussed in book one see above. Lewis desk in his house mike blyth flickr 11 there is no good trying to be more spiritual than god. It means killing part of yourself under going a kind of death.

That is why he uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. 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.

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