In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, Lucifer could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.
– CS Lewis –
from A Preface to Paradise Lost
CS Lewis
July 13, 2012
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –
May 20, 2012
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ”Blessed are they that mourn.”
— CS Lewis –
May 17, 2012
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
– CS Lewis –
March 13, 2012
When He was crucified He “did that in the wild weather of His outlying provinces which He had done at home in glory and gladness.” From before the foundation of the world, He surrenders begotten Deity back to begetting Deity in obedience.
– CS Lewis –
from The Problem of Pain
February 25, 2012
The enemy will not see you vanish into God’s company without an effort to reclaim you.
– C.S. Lewis –
January 2, 2012
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
– CS Lewis –
November 27, 2011
If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark on Earth precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
– C. S. Lewis –
Mere Christianity
November 21, 2011
Charity—giving to the poor—is an essential part of Christian morality. . . . I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than is comfortable. In other words, if our expenditures on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc. is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving too little.
– C. S. Lewis –
Mere Christianity