Jesus Christ Superstition Quotes

“C.S. Lewis puts it well in The Screwtape Letters. The veteran demon describes a Christian at prayer: If you examine the object to which he is attending, you will find that it is a composite object containing many … ingredients. There will be [e.g.] images derived from pictures of [Christ] as He appeared during … the Incarnation…. I have known cases where what the [person] called his “God” was actually located … inside his own head…. [Such a Christian will be] praying to it—to the thing that he has made, not to the Person who has made him.17 This, I think, is the unintended truth of the slogan of Jesus as one’s “personal savior.” He is a different savior in the eye of every beholder. Your personal savior is customized a bit differently from mine. He doesn’t have all the same options.”
― Robert M. Price, Jesus Christ Superstition

“How do I distinguish which prompting within me is from the Holy Spirit and which is from myself? […] [Such neophyte Christians] are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in so doing are bringing themselves into deeper bondage. Now this is a situation which is really dangerous to Christian life, for inward knowledge will never be reached. Along the barren path of self-analysis…. That way leads only to uncertainty, vacillation and despair.27”
― Robert M. Price, Jesus Christ Superstition