C. S. Lewis Quotes

Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn't have it all together.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.

Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will

Jesus is God but he humbled himself to walk with us. He is our friend, our brother.

I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.

Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.