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Christianity Quotes by C. S. Lewis

72 Christianity quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis compares learning chemistry to learning Christianity—both need study and practice. He stresses that Christianity asks us to notice our own sin and to seek forgiveness. He also warns that if we treat faith as just another piece of advice, it loses its real power.

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The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

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Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

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The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

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We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

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Christianity is a fighting religion.

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Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

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We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

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The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

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We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

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The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

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Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...

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God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories…

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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,…

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In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the…

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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete,…

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To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to…

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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him…

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Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in…

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Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a…

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A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in…

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Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it…

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Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you…

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Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now…

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For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all…

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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to…

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Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe…

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No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a…

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“On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean…

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“The great difficulty is to get modern audiences to realize that you are preaching Christianity solely and simply because you happen to…

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“Christianity and Buddhism are a lot alike, especially Buddhism.”

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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

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We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything…

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Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

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To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

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If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…