Below are more excerpts from C.S. Lewis, our featured Anglican writer and theologian this week. See Monday’s post for more information on Lewis. Remarkable stuff that follows.

On acceptable actions:

All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest: and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not.

—Learning in Wartime

On ordinary people:

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

—The Weight of Glory

On attending church:

If there is anything in the teaching of the New Testament which is in the nature of a command, it is that you are obliged to take the sacrament, and you can’t do it without going to church. I disliked very much their hymns, which I considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as I went on I saw the great merit of it. I came up against different people of quite different outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren’t fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit.

—Answers to Questions on Christianity