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Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis QUOTES

1 " When the author of Genesis says that God made man in His own image, he may have pictured a vaguely corporeal God making man as a child makes a figure out of plasticine. A modern Christian philosopher may think of a process lasting from the first creation of matter to the final appearance on this planet of an organism fit to receive spiritual as well as biological life. But both mean essentially the same thing. Both are denying the same thing—the doctrine that matter by some blind power inherent in itself has produced spirituality. GOD IN THE DOCK “Dogma and the Universe "

― C.S. Lewis , Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis

2 " Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. "

― C.S. Lewis , Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis

3 " The doctrine of the Incarnation, if accepted, puts this principle even more emphatically at the centre. The pattern is there in Nature because it was first there in God. "

― C.S. Lewis , Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis