Literally Just Quotes: Mere Christianity

"When I was an atheist..."
"...the Being who made this standard, is further back and higher up..."
[This is how Lewis represents the to the travelers of The Last Battle the journey remaining to them in Narnian heaven, as well as this argument in Mere Christianity.
"But anyone who has been in authority knows how a thing can be in accordance with your will in one way and not in another."
"Good and Evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible."
"Now Faith...is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
"...said it parrot-fashion."
"the difficulty is to reach the point of recognising that all we have done and can do is nothing."
"Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home is good actions, or Faith in Christ. I have no right really to speak on such a difficult questions, but it does seem to me like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most necessary."
"Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect-perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment."
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