“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUOTE: October 25, 2013
“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
FACT: October 25, 2013
The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series was give live today (10/25) in 1942. It is known as “The Great Sin”.
RETRO: October 22nd – 31st
Highlights for the final third of October (22nd – 31st) include: First sermon preached, three significant posthumous books and Lewis defines “the great sin.”
There are many hats that C.S. Lewis wore: children’s author, Christian apologist, and literary critic being the three most common realms people are familiar with. While similar to his role as a defender of the faith, many are not aware that he also spoke on Sunday mornings several times in his life. The very first occurred on the
QUOTE: October 17, 2013
[Screwtape Complains:] “The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of course, but the bond remains mere Christianity.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXV – The Enemy Loves Platitude
(First published in The Guardian on 10/17/1941)
QUOTE: October 11, 2013
“The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong.”
Sexual Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/11/1942; Chapter Five from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUIZ: October 5, 2013
What book that is a part of Mere Christianity was published this month (in what year)?
QUOTE: October 4, 2013
“When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various feelings, impulses and so on which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the raw material of his choice.”
Morality and Psychoanalysis
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter three from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUOTE: September 28, 2013
“[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUOTE: September 27, 2013
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)