More from C. S. Lewis

Today concludes excerpts from C.S. Lewis, this week’s featured Anglican writer and theologian. See Monday’s post for more information on Lewis. Once again, note his incisive logic and ability to explain complex issues in a straightforward manner. I hope you have enjoyed and profited from his writings.

On the “good life”:

The idea of reaching “a good life” without Christ is based on a double error. Firstly, we cannot do it. And secondly, in setting up “a good life” as our final goal, we have missed the very point of our existence.

Man or Rabbit?

On preaching:

Our business is to present that which is timeless (the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow) in the particular language of our own age. The bad preacher does exactly the opposite: he takes the ideas of our own age and tricks them out in the traditional language of Christianity.

Christian Apologetics

On God’s Nature:

Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about him. The conclusion I dread is not, “So there’s no God after all,” but, “So this is what God’s really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”

A Grief Observed

On the Trinity:

An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the man who was God  that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him. You see what is happening. God is the thing to which he is praying  the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him on  the motive power. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So that the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually going on in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary man is saying his prayers.

Mere Christianity