It is simple religions that are the made-up ones. Topics: Religion |
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. Topics: Renewal |
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. Topics: Repentance Source: Mere Christianity |
A wrong sum can be put right, but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Topics: Repentance |
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form. The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man. Topics: Salvation, Christ, Surrender |
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved? Topics: Salvation, Grace Source: The Problem of Pain |
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Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. Topics: Salvation Source: The World's Last Night |
"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. Topics: Salvation Source: The Silver Chair |
'Yes,' said Queen Lucy. 'In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.' Topics: Salvation Source: The Last Battle |
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save. Topics: Salvation |
Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.' Topics: Salvation |
When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. Topics: Salvation |