We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
– CS Lewis –
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
– CS Lewis –
But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else …
– CS Lewis –
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
– 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
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 –
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 –
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain, but without stain.
– 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 –
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 –