C. S. Lewis noted that the one prayer that God almost never grants is “encore.” Lewis wrote that our nostalgia for the “golden moments in the past” can be nourishing and sustaining, as long as we see them for what they are—memories, not blueprints. “Properly bedded down in a past which we do not miserably […]
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ― C.S. Lewis
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“Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.” Prov. 12:15 GNT “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. – […]
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[From Dww-work]… LORD, LIAR OR LUNATIC CS Lewis in Mere Christianity writes: I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “”‘m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we […]
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“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy […]
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It’s not as if we have only recently discovered through science that dead people don’t rise again to life. They knew that in Jesus’ day. “The reason Joseph was worried about Mary’s pregnancy was not because he didn’t know where babies come from but because he did.” – C.S. Lewis They knew dead people don’t […]
C.S. Lewis wrote a book called The Great Divorce to show the differences between Heaven and Hell. In this fantasy, people take a day trip to the bright borders of heaven. Because Heaven is so real, the people appear as ghosts next to the solidity of heaven and heaven’s residents. Heaven’s grass even hurts their […]