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If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead.

C. S. Lewis

— Mere Christianity (1999, p. 197)

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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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— Mere Christianity (1999, p. 208)

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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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— The Problem of Pain (1940)

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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— Mere Christianity (1999, p. 50)

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You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

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— Mere Christianity (1999, p. 214)

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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

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— Mere Christianity (1999, p. 142)

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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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— Mere Christianity (1999)

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