C. S. Lewis Quotes About Sinners

• When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Christian, World

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

• Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Taken, People

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Children, Thinking

• Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

  C. S. Lewis

  Messages, Realizing, Christianity

• We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe, Knows, Saved

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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