And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. LewisTag: inspirational god human religious slavery c-s-lewis mere-christianity
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In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity
C.S. LewisTag: theology c-s-lewis mere-christianity
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk.
C.S. LewisTag: mere-christianity
Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.
C.S. LewisTag: mere-christianity
We call a cancer bad, they would say, because it kills a man; but you might just as well call a successful surgeon bad because he kills a cancer.
C.S. LewisTag: pantheism mere-christianity pov
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
C.S. LewisTag: mere-christianity
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
C.S. LewisTag: mere-christianity
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