C.S. Lewis Sundays #18: on age

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C.S. Lewis

(If anyone could help me track down the source of this particular Lewis quote, I’d be grateful.)

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C.S. Lewis Sundays #17: Pride

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Other vices may sometimes bring people together: you may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people or unchaste people.  But pride always means enmity– it is enmity.

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C.S. Lewis Sundays #16: Resurrection

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ’s achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the ‘first fruits’, the ‘pioneer of life’. He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first [...]

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C.S. Lewis Sundays #15: the first sin

The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first–wanting to be the centre–wanting to be God, in fact.  That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race . . . .  What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors [...]

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C.S. Lewis Sundays #14 –Affection

Thank you to everyone who left encouraging comments on the last few posts. You have no idea how much they mean to me!
I have applied for several jobs already and am exploring different leads and opportunities in the human services/mental health field. I am excited about what God will do and very much appreciate your [...]

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C.S. Lewis Sundays#13 –Hints of our Future

In my counseling this year, I have encountered so much suffering that accompanies physical pain and the grief associated with death. In my effort to minister comfort and hope, I find myself returning again and again to the powerful truth that heaven is the destiny for believers in Christ and that Christians can expect [...]

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C.S. Lewis Sundays #12 –Love & Happy Mother’s Day

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish
for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
–C.S. Lewis
I think this quote by Lewis expresses one aspect of what makes a mother’s love so unique.
My mother definitely specializes in that “steady wish” for our [...]

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C.S. Lewis Sundays#11 –On Friendship

“Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a fire?” –Letters of C.S. Lewis (21 December 1941), para. 3, p. 197

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” –Selected Literary Essays, “Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem”
(1942), para. 15, [...]

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C.S. Lewis Sundays #10 –Spiritual Cancer

Lewis treats the subject of human pride in Mere Christianity with a great deal of wisdom. My last post was a little snippet on humility, which is the foundation for love, and the opposite of pride. Without humility, there is no way to even begin to love, because love is essentially other-centered. Love–for [...]

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C.S. Lewis Sundays #9 - on Humility

“If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are [...]

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