Mere Christianity

I just got back from jr high camp on saturday and today I visited Bethany, Katie, and Ryan up in BC. What an incredible weekend! I'll blog about that later this week, but for tonight I'm catching up on some reading for my internship. We're finishing up Mere Christianity by CS Lewis and man did the end really pick up! I'm totally interested in it! Here are my top two quotes of the night-

"...and that by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not a static thing-not even a person-but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think of me irreverent, a kind of dance."

I don't want to serve a king that is static, unmoving, and dead. I want a dance, a romance to sweep me off my feet!!

"The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says 'Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don't want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked-the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.'"