Summary Of C. S Lewis Mere Christianity

In “Mere Christianity”, C.S Lewis describes how hard it is to be a good Christian in his statement “now we cannot, in that sense, discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing)” (265). In this statement, Lewis is arguing that struggling to be good and having faith in religion takes a tremendous amount of willpower. Faith in religion takes conscious effort because it can become difficult to hold onto faith over time. I can relate this to my own personal experience of struggling to maintain my faith and be a good person/Muslim. I consider myself to be a person with good “akhlaq” which is an Arabic term referring to an individual that practices virtue, morality, and manners. Having good morals has