Status Updates From Mere Christianity

“I wonder what an ordinary baby might do if it had the choice. It might prefer to stay in the dark and warmth and safety of the womb. For of course, it would think the womb meant safety. That would be just where it was wrong. For if it stays there, it would die.”

“He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of… You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage, but he is building a palace. He intends to come live in it himself.”

“Very often, the only way to get a quality in reality, is to start behaving as if you had it already… The moment you realize ‘here I am, dressing up as Christ’, it is extremely likely that you will see at once some way in which at that very moment, the pretense could become less of a pretense, and more of a reality.”