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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

C. S. Lewis
Fearless, Church, Needs

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

C. S. Lewis
Men, Religion, Church

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

C. S. Lewis
Church, Together, Christianity
C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

C. S. Lewis
Self, Church, May
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.93, HarperCollins UK

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

C. S. Lewis
Church, Waste, Wasting Time

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

C. S. Lewis
Christian, Believe, Church
C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.293, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

C. S. Lewis
Men, Church, Christ

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

C. S. Lewis
Christian, Support, Church

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

C. S. Lewis
Song, Symphony, Church
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

C. S. Lewis
Men, Church, Next
C. S. Lewis (2009). “Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul”, p.5, Harper Collins

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

C. S. Lewis
Prayer, Mean, Church
Source: www.teachingbooks.net

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

C. S. Lewis
Secret, Listening, Church
C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

C. S. Lewis
Religious, People, Church
Source: www.teachingbooks.net

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

C. S. Lewis
Differences, Church, Vices
Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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