“Regardless of the official theology held on paper, moralistic preaching (the bane of conservatives and liberals alike) assumes that we are not really helpless sinners who need to be rescued but decent folks who need good examples, exhortations, and instructions.”
― Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
― Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.”
― The Normal Christian Life
― The Normal Christian Life
“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
― The Normal Christian Life
― The Normal Christian Life
“If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right.”
― The Normal Christian Life
― The Normal Christian Life
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