If you wish to grow in your spiritual life, you must not allow yourself to be caught up in the workings of the world. You must find time alone, away from the noise and confusion, away from the allure of power and wealth. Thomas a Kempis (circa 1379 – 1471)
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 […]
Martin Luther Quote – “I have held many things in my hands…”
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess. Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
Franz Hartmann Quote – “Each man may know his own heart…”
But where can man find the truth? If he seeks deep enough in himself he will find it revealed. Each man may know his own heart. He may send a ray of his intelligence into the depths of his soul and search its bottom; he may find it to be as infinitely deep as the sky above his head. He […]