We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
– CS Lewis –
CS Lewis
Look for Christ – CS Lewis
But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else …
– CS Lewis –
A Desire to Give – CS Lewis
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
– CS Lewis –
Holiness would transform the world – CS Lewis
How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even 10% of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?
– CS Lewis –
from Letters to an American Lady, 1967
Jesus is the True Word of God – CS Lewis
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit … will bring us to Him.
– CS Lewis –
Loving God and Spouse – CS Lewis
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
– CS Lewis –
The Reason the Church Exists – CS Lewis
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
– CS Lewis –
What Do You Surrender To? – CS Lewis
He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
– CS Lewis –
God Is With Us – CS Lewis
God whispers to us in our joys, speaks to us in our difficulties, and shouts to us in our pains.
– CS Lewis –
1898-1963