C.S. Lewis

rivulet said:

Here's a quote for you: "True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

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Neogaia777 said:

It's also an antimetabole (Literary term, if you don't know, I just learned about it, so...) An example of an antimetabole Jesus uses is when he says, " he who seeks to save his soul shall lose it, but he who loses his soul for my sake, shall find it" Or J.F.K. "Ask not what your country should do for you, but what you should do for your country." It's a reversal of words like "Do you see what you like?, or do you like what you see?" see...

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ken777 said:

My favorite C S Lewis quote is from "Mere Christianity":

“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.”​

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