C.S. Lewis on “Finding” God

On God It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. “Look out!” we cry, “it’s alive.” And therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back—I would have done so myself if I could—and proceed no further with Christianity. An “impersonal God”—well and good. A subjective God…

C.S. Lewis on Our Life as Immortals

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

C.S. Lewis on “Ourselves”

The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. There is so much of Him that millions and millions of ‘little Christs’, all different, will still be too few to express Him fully. He made them all. He invented—…

“Joy in the Journey” (Kruger)

These notes are taken from Melissa B. Kruger’s book Growing Together, chapter 9, “Joy in the Journey: Cultivating Contentment in All Seasons.” Bold face texts are mine. Our longings are not necessarily bad or sinful; most of them are good things. However we tend to expect too much from them. Relationships, success, financial security, beautiful…

C.S.Lewis on the King’s Stables

To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in our present pilgrim condition plenty of room (more room than most of us like) for abstinence and renunciation and mortifying our natural desires. But behind all…

Our Time vs. God’s Time (C.S. Lewis)

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that He knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. But if He knows I am going to do so-and-so, how can I be free to do otherwise? Well, here once again, the difficulty comes from thinking that God is progressing along the Timeline like…

…unused and unenjoyed…

“…many people I meet waste time reminiscing about the good ol’ days (which are no longer true and real), and let today (which is true and real) slip right by them. Others are consumed by thoughts of where they wish they were, what they want to have, what could have been, or what they might…

Twisting “the Enemy’s” Pleasure

The demon Screwtape twists God’s (“the Enemy’s”) gift of pleasure: Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s ground. I know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is His invention, not…

Many Christians seek to serve God without ever seeking to live in daily contact with Him, and without the faith that it is only His presence can keep from sin. Andrew Murray, The Two Covenants, Chapter XII

“THE Myth”

Letter from C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves: from The Kilns (on his conversion to Christianity), 18 October 1931 Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous different that it really happened: and one must be content to…