Madison > Madison's Quotes

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Love is the great conqueror of lust.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity