"The Screwtape Letters" Quotes by CS Lewis

Here are selected quotes from The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. It is one of the best Christian books I have ever read.

- "Aggravate that most useful human characteristic, the horror and neglect of the obvious. You must bring him to a condition in which he can practice self-examination for an hour without discovering any of those facts about himself which are perfectly clear to anyone who has ever lived in the same house with him or worked in the same office." (16)

- "He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them." (28)

- "Provided that any of those neighbors sing out of tune, or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion therefore be somehow ridiculous." (12)

"Story of a Soul" Quotes by St. Therese de Lisieux

Here are selected quotes from Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by St. Therese de Lisieux. It is one of the best Christian books ever written, in my opinion.

- "This desire might seem presumptuous, seeing how week and imperfect I was and still am, even after eight years as a nun, yet I always feel the same fearless uncertainty that I shall become a great saint. I'm not relying on my own merits, as I have none, but I put my hope in Him who is goodness and holiness Himself. It is He alone who, satisfied with my feeble efforts, will raise me to Him, will clothe me with His infinite merits, and will make me a saint." (37-38)

- "She showed me how one could achieve sanctity by being faithful in the smallest matters." (39)

- "Sometimes I felt lonely, very lonely, but then peace and courage would come back to me if I repeated the line: 'The world's thy ship and not thy home.'" (48)

- "It's absolutely true that 'nothing is impossible to love, for love is convinced it may and can do all things.'" (64)

"Mere Christianity" Quotes by CS Lewis

Here are selected quotes from the book Mere Christianity by CS Lewis. In my opinion it is the best Christian book that I have ever read!

- "But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man." (28)

- "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.' This 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 be either a lunatic - on a level of a 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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." (52)

- "But unfortunately we now need God's help in order to do something which God, in His own nature, never does at all - to surrender, to suffer, to submit, to die." (57-58)

- "The perfect submission, the perfect suffering, the perfect death were not only easier to Jesus because He was God, but were possible only because He was God. But surely that is a very odd reason for not accepting them? The teacher is able to form the letters for the child because the teacher is grown-up and knows how to write. That, of course, makes it easier for the teacher; and only because it is easier for him can he help the child. If it rejected him because 'it's easy for grown-ups' and waited to learn writing from another child who could not write itself (and so had no 'unfair' advantage), it would not get on very quickly." (58-59)

- "But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in one person - then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God. You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can only do it if He becomes man." (58)

- "There is a different between doing some particular just or temperate action and being a just or temperate man." (79)

Best Christian Books List

In order, here is a list of the best Christian books that I have read.

01. CS Lewis - Mere Christianity - quotes from the book
02. St. Therese de Lisieux - Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux - quotes from the book
03. Mother Teresa - Come Be My Light
04. St. Louis de Montfort - True Devotion to Mary
05. CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
06. Scott Hahn - Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
07. Christopher West - Theology of the Body for Beginners: A Basic Introduction to Pope John Paul II's Sexual Revolution
08. GK Chesteron - Orthodoxy
09. Matthew Kelly - Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star
10. CS Lewis - The Great Divorce
11. Scott Hahn - Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God
12. Peggy Noonan - John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father
13. John Eldridge - Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
14. CS Lewis - The Four Loves


Of course, there are also book on my list to be read. In no particular order, here are the Christian books that I am most excited about reading:
- Joseph Ratzinger - Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
- GK Chesteron - Saint Thomas Aquinas - 'The Dumb Ox'
- George Weigel - Letters to a Young Catholic (Art of Mentoring)
- St. Augustine - Confessions
- Pope John Paul II - Love and Responsibility
- Pope John Paul II - Crossing the Threshold of Hope