I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
C. S. Lewis Quote – “Don’t you remember on earth…”
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. […]
C. S. Lewis Quote – “Ye cannot know eternal reality…”
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
C. S. Lewis Quote – “Humility is not thinking less of yourself…”
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
C. S. Lewis Quote – “Many people want to serve God…”
Many people want to serve God, mostly in an advisory capacity. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
C. S. Lewis Quote – “I thought I was the only one…”
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)
C. S. Lewis Quote – “I was made for another world…”
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)
C. S. Lewis Quote – “Pain is God’s megaphone…”
Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
C. S. Lewis Quote – “Here at last is the thing I was made for…”
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 […]
C. S. Lewis Quote – “Become increasingly aware of our unawareness…”
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 […]
