{"id":7122,"date":"2018-09-15T08:29:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2018-09-15T08:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T12:41:51","slug":"christ-life-inside-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7122","title":{"rendered":"Christ-life Inside Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lewis-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lewis-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lewis-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lewis-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lewis-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8212; if they think there is not &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; C. S. Lewis, <em>Mere Christianity<\/em>, quoted in <em>C. S. Lewis&#8217; Book of Wisdom: Meditations on Faith, Life, Love, and Literature<\/em>, compiled by Andrea Kirk Assaf &#038; Kelly Anne Leahy, page 56.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=11685\">More thoughts about this quote found on Sonderjourneys.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, October 23, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; if they think there is not &#8212; at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-growth","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}