The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
C. S. LewisThrough pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
C. S. LewisThis world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.
C. S. Lewis[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
C. S. LewisBut in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
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