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Mere Christianity (1952)
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The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.
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A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.
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Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.
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Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.
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The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
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As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
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The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
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The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
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But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.
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Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
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God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
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Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.
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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
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On the whole, God's love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.
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If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.
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Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.
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Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different than what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.
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We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
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God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.
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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
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Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
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When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
November 29, 1898
Died:
November 22, 1963
(aged 64)
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