Don’t you remember on earth there were things too hot to touch with your finger but you could drink them all right? Shame is like that. If you will accept it — if you will drink the cup to the bottom — you will find it very nourishing; but try to do anything else with it and it scalds. C. […]
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
Many people want to serve God, mostly in an advisory capacity. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it — tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if should really become manifest — if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself — you would […]
Perhaps, for many of us, all experience merely defines, so to speak, the shape of that gap where our love of God ought to be. It is not enough. It is something. If we cannot “practice the presence of God,” it is something to practice the absence of God, to become increasingly aware of our unawareness. C. S. Lewis (1898 […]
