C. S. Lewis Quotes

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

It’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way truly leads to a life most abundant and most thirst-satisfying.

Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.

The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman.

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

Non-churchgoer s tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly a light that glimmers. The Bible teaches that the church is to be that light, that sign of hope, in an increasingly dark and hopeless world.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.