C. S. Lewis Quotes

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of Jesus Christ to receive the Gospel.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.