Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic)

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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.

I am going to stand by my argument from before, that morals arise from natural human behavior that generally benefits society as a whole. He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.

Lewis is full of these kinds of quotable statements throughout the book as he explains not why he believes, but what he believes.

This classic book will still stimulate the minds of Christians, agnostics, atheists and followers of other faiths and it is great to see it still in print. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. But taking the race as a whole, they thought that the human idea of decent behaviour was obvious to everyone.

One minute he's talking about letters in envelopes and then he's saying, "See, this proves God exists. We freely admit we have nothing to lose, looking at the facts, and yes, there are inescapable facts about Jesus Christ, not just found in the Bible, in human history recorded by those who have absolutely no stake in affirming or confirming that miracle of God begotten man who came and died and rose again for the sins of humanity.