This quote from C.S. Lewis was found on a site I've been visiting after she visited mine. It's from Mere Christianity and it's fabulous, too good not to share or read over and over. So thought provoking! Thanks, dlyn.
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
2 comments:
Mrs W.,
That is one of my most favorite passages from Mere Christianity! That book never gets old; I read it again and again, and sometimes I listen to it, since I have it on CD, and I always find that it makes me think. Thanks for sharing!
Hannah R.
I love the logic behind this quote! Dead on.
(I especially love the part about the poached egg!)
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