Quotes about chris
christian atheist lying
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them. Bertrand Russell
christian atheist practice
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism. Bertrand Russell
christianity neighbor modern
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. Benjamin Disraeli
christian religious taken
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. Benjamin Disraeli
christianity judaism
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist. Benjamin Disraeli
christian successful unique
Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen. Ben Fountain
christian men people
The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning. C. S. Lewis
christian book want
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent. C. S. Lewis
christian atheist mistake
If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. C. S. Lewis
christian mean thinking
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. C. S. Lewis
christian love-you love-is
Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. C. S. Lewis
christ offers
Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing. C. S. Lewis
christian world failing
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world C. S. Lewis
christian pain speak
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. C. S. Lewis
christian virtue chastity
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. C. S. Lewis
christian inspiration pride
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. C. S. Lewis
christian inspiration errors
A 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. C. S. Lewis
christian light fog
Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. C. S. Lewis
christian giving-up taken
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. C. S. Lewis
christian love-you men
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. C. S. Lewis
christian names people
The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so. C. S. Lewis
christian men degrees
In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis
christian pain world
Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C. S. Lewis
christian self views
The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed. C. S. Lewis
christian teacher pride
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. C. S. Lewis
christian fresh-start belief
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. C. S. Lewis
christian soul unity
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. C. S. Lewis
christian men judging
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. C. S. Lewis
christian men community
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians. C. S. Lewis
christian teacher inspiration
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. C. S. Lewis
christian thinking hints
If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. C. S. Lewis
christian groups said
Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.' C. S. Lewis
christian book writing
Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world. C. S. Lewis