Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are; (Location 271)
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. (Location 340)
‘Why did God make a creature of such rotten stuff that it went wrong?’ The better stuff a creature is made of—the cleverer and stronger and freer it is—then the better it will be if it goes right, but also the worse it will be if it goes wrong. A cow cannot be very good or very bad; a dog can be both better and worse; a child better and worse still; an ordinary man, still more so; a man of genius, still more so; a superhuman spirit best—or worst—of all. (Location 761)
But unfortunately we now need God’s help in order to do something which God, in His own nature, never does at all—to surrender, to suffer, to submit, to die. Nothing in God’s nature corresponds to this process at all. So that the one road for which we now need God’s leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. God can share only (Location 868)
what He has: this thing, in His own nature, He has not. But supposing God became a man—suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God’s nature in one person—then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God. (Location 871)
You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can do it only if He becomes man. (Location 873)
If I am drowning in a rapid river, a man who still has one foot on the bank may give me a hand which saves my life. Ought I to shout back (between my gasps) ‘No, it’s not fair! You have an advantage! You’re keeping one foot on the bank’? That advantage—call it ‘unfair’ if you (Location 884)
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. (Location 1615)
Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. (Location 1806)
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. (Location 1822)
(There may be creatures in other worlds who are more like God than man is, but we do not know about them.) (Location 1995)
He does not ‘foresee’ you doing things tomorrow; He simply sees you doing them: because, though tomorrow is not yet there for you, it is for Him. (Location 2137)
You might say that when two Christians are following Christ together there is not twice as much Christianity as when they are apart, but sixteen times as much. (Location 2357)
We treat our dogs as if they were ‘almost human’: that is why they really become ‘almost human’ in the end. (Location 2397)
Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think (Location 2423)
wicked—the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.’ (Location 2423)
For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call ‘ourselves’, to keep personal happiness (Location 2435)
We are all trying to let our mind and heart go their own way—centred on money or pleasure or ambition—and hoping, in spite of this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly. (Location 2436)
We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. (Location 2449)
I think He meant ‘The only help I will give is help to become perfect. You may want something less: but I will give you nothing less.’ (Location 2476)
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost His crucifixion. (Location 2605)
For mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people even here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine. (Location 2647)
There is so much of Him that millions and millions of ‘little Christs’, all different, will still be too few to express Him fully. (Location 2751)
