Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs….
Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as ove….
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historia….
Grey is the devil's favorite color..
Love is the binding force on every level of existence..
In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth..
An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, an….
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction..
Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that eve….
I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves..
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived..
Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet….
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous..
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic C….
Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit..
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what ….
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the So….
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God wi….
Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake..
Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate..
Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it..