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In 'MERE CHRISTIANITY'
Because the christian band SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER
took the name from C.S.'s book.

2007-11-16 05:09:43 · 3 answers · asked by Cranberrydude 3 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

Yeah i know it's brittish currency but what i meant is that i want to know the exact passage.

2007-11-16 05:24:49 · update #1

3 answers

This took me a bit; I found the passage quoted online here:
http://crlamppost.org/sixpence.htm
but they don't give the chapter, and I kept missing it when I tried to page through the book for it.

I found an article here:
http://tmatt.gospelcom.net/tmatt/amy/amy2.php
which narrowed it down to a chapter on "faith." There are actually two consecutive chapters in the book with that heading.

See Book III, Chapter 11, the last paragraph.

2007-11-16 05:43:26 · answer #1 · answered by Samwise 7 · 0 0

Chapter 11 of book 3 entitled "Faith"

"Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already. So that when we talk of a man doing anything for God or giving anything to God, I will tell you what it is like. It is like a small child going to its father and saying, "Daddy, give me sixpence to buy you a birthday present." Of course, the father does, and he is pleased with the child's present. It is all very nice and proper, but only an idiot would think that the father is sixpence to the good on the transaction."

2007-11-16 13:45:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It is British money.

2007-11-16 13:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 4 · 0 0

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