I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
C.S. LewisTag: christianity religion evidence apologetics lewis clive cs staples
On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.
C.S. LewisTag: good-and-evil
You see, friends, he said, that before the new, clean world I gave you is seven hours old, a force of evil has already entered it; waked and brought hither by this son of Adam.
C.S. Lewis¿Y por qué hemos de dejar que el enemigo elija nuestra posición en vez de elegirla nosotros mismos?
C.S. LewisAfter each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
C.S. LewisWe use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want. He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged by his attitude for her five minutes after fruition.
C.S. LewisIf we cannot persuade our friends by reasons we must be content "and not bring a mercenary army to our aid" (He meant passions.)
C.S. LewisTag: wisdom passion friendship-and-love
Further up and further in
C.S. LewisGood and evil are not static; they are dynamic. Each one continually feeds on itself just like compound interest in the bank. Good is always getting better, and evil is always getting worse.
C.S. LewisTag: inspirational
We appear to be saying something very important about
something: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings.
Tag: feelings
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