Hell is a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement and where everyone has a grievance.
HT: @CSLewisDaily
Category Archives: C. S. Lewis
Prayer Changes Things
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God; it changes me.
It Hasn’t Even Entered Our Imaginations What God Has in Store for the Believer
We have not yet the slightest notion of the tremendous thing that He means to make of us.
HT: @PastorTyler
God Doesn’t Just Hand out Prizes
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1952).
Glorifying God by Enjoying Him
In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him
All or Nothing
Christ says, “Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there; I want to have the whole tree down. I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked — the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: My own will shall become yours.”
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1952), 167.
Christians Who Do the Most
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have been so ineffective in this.
Good and Evil Increase at Compound Interest
God and evil increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1952), 117.
Life Is Worship 