C. S. Lewis Quotes About Redemption

• Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Elements, Redemption, World

• Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Redemption, Improvement

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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