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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
- Christianity
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. II
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere ‘opiate of the people’ have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Christianity
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
- Christianity
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms (1958), p. 32
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”
- Christianity
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
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
- Christianity
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
- Christianity
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don’t.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
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
- Christianity
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Christianity
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of ‘religion.’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
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)
- Christianity
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”
- Christianity