I find it hard to believe that a man of his insight could have believed in evolution without seeing that it is almost a religion unto itself. for example, in the final pages he writes about evolution and seems to have drunk deeply of that explanation to man’s origins. 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 even be more difficult to save.”īut there were some areas of the chapter that were not so good. “We must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. “If you are a nice person–if virtue comes easily to you–beware!” It is when Dick realises that his niceness is not his own but a gift from God, and when he offers it back to God–it is just then that it begins to be really his own.” “As long as Dick does not turn to God, he thinks his niceness is his own, and just as long as he thinks that, it is not his own.

I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it.'” I don’t want to much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. Christianity offers nothing else at all.” “ is not a sort of special exercise for the top class. But the suddenness does not create the rats it only prevents them from hiding.” “Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. “We begin to notice, besides our particular sinful acts, our sinfulness begin to be alarmed not only about what we do, but about what we are.” Because there were so many, I think I’ll focus on simply sharing a few of them today. I found a lot of great quotes that were worthy of some highlighting. In these five chapters, Lewis focuses on sanctification, on putting aside the old man and on becoming sons of God. Then again, though I think that this week’s reading was better than last week’s, it was not without it’s troubling portions.

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