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I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 5, “The Practical Conclusion”
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only ‘mouth honour’ and that decreasingly.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963They Asked for a Paper
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The World’s Last Night (1952)
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic⁠—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg⁠—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 3, “The Shocking Alternative”
The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Anti-Religion
Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew.
Martin Luther1483–1546The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 74
- Faith
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, “Repent,” he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
Martin Luther1483–1546Ninety-five Theses (1517), Thesis 1
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 250.
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 148
I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
George MacDonald1824–1905From a letter to his father, quoted in George MacDonald and His Wife (1924) by Greville MacDonald
- Religion
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maherborn 1956Be More Cynical (2000)