C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
現在神棍滿街，但信者不少，正好應驗他們常說的末世現象。
C.S. Lewis 這本小書是80年前出版的老書了，英國版的基督教比起美國版還是踏實一些。
Mere Christianity 所以叫 mere，是不想拘執於任何宗派，只提出基督宗教的共同核心信念。全書是純理性討論，沒有催人淚下的見證以麻痺腦袋，也沒有神蹟奇事的演示或地震海嘯的預言以迷惑眾生。
雖然這書一直備受推崇，但我覺得還是有點讀不懂，尤其是關於三位一體的論述，所以，只列出 quotable quotes
“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them.”
“People ate their dinners and felt better long before the theory of vitamins was ever heard of; and if the theory of vitamins is some day abandoned they will go on eating their dinners just the same. Theories about Christ’s death are not Christianity: they are explanations about how it works.”
“The real black, diabolical pride comes when you look down on others so much that you do not care what they think of you. . . . as if their opinion were worth anything?”
“Some people are ‘cold’ by temperament; that may be a misfortune for them, but it is no more a sin than having a bad digestion is a sin;”
“God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.”
“Faith . . . is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
“you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in flowers or music. Neither will you get anywhere by looking at maps without going to sea. Nor will you be very safe if you go to sea without a map.”
“Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ‘religion’ mean nothing unless they make our actual behaviour better; just as in an illness ‘feeling better’ is not much good if the thermometer shows that your temperature is still going up.”