This week, my book club met and discussed C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity and the Screwtape Letters. I loved our discussion…..and the fact that there were cool quotable sayings on every single page! Here are just a few that I gathered from Mere Christianity:
The best of (human beings) will make mistakes; all of them will die. We must be thankful to the people who have helped us…but never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.
What a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is…Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding.
People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.’ I do not think that is the best way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.
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