“The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys…”
–Mere Christianity
“The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.”
–The Weight of Glory
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”
–The Weight of Glory
“Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.”
–The Weight of Glory
“If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.”
–The Weight of Glory
“When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.”
–The Weight of Glory
“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.”
–The Weight of Glory
“No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as ‘what a man does with his solitude.'”
–The Weight of Glory
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
–The Weight of Glory
“To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow’s end or the Greek Calends.”
–The Weight of Glory
“100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.”
–The Weight of Glory
“When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude…that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.”
–The Weight of Glory
“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
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