A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, “darkness” on the walls of his cell.
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Because of the Christ-life Inside – CS Lewis
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; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.
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I Was Made For Another World – CS Lewis
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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Infinite Joy Is Offered – CS Lewis
Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
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The Son of God Became a Man – CS Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
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God Comes In To Rebuild – CS Lewis
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. … You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
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Unable To Hear My Voice – C S Lewis
He thinks great folly child,’ said Aslan. ‘This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growling’s and roaring’s. Oh Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! …
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God is Happiness and Peace – CS Lewis
God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing.
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April 14, 2015
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word DARKNESS on the walls of his cell.
– CS Lewis –