“The difference between a Christian and a worldly man is that the worldly man treats certain people kindly because he ‘likes’ them; the Christian, trying to treat everyone kindly, finds himself liking more and more people as he goes on-including people he could not even have imagined liking at the beginning.”
“That is why the Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or, if they think there is not, at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
“Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices."
“Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.”
“’Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’ Because in Christian morals ‘thy neighbor’ includes ‘thy enemy’, and so we come up against this terrible duty of forgiving our enemies.”
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. And then, to mention the subject at all is to be greeted with howls of anger.”
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did."
“But whenever we do good to another self, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least, to dislike it less.”
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good."
“If you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones – bad, muddled, out-of-date.”
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