“Whenever you find a man who says he doesn’t believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.”
–The Case for Christianity
“This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”
–The Case for Christianity
“Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can’t really get rid of it.”
–The Case for Christianity
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”
–Mere Christianity
“Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self…”
–Mere Christianity
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will…then we may take it it is worth paying.”
–Mere Christianity
‘You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,’” said the Lion.”
–The Silver Chair
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is…”
–Mere Christianity
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
–The World’s Last Night