Lewis

The Problem of Forgiveness

May 26, 2011 · Posted in Forgiveness, Lewis

…you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart—every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out. The difference between this situation and the one in such you are asking God’s forgiveness is this. In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s [...]

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What it Cost God

August 17, 2010 · Posted in Atonement, Lewis

It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. —C.S. Lewis Via: Of First Importance

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I read the following quote on Dr. Ray Ortlund’s weblog today and wanted to pass it along. For my part, I too have found more food for my soul in reading deeper doctrinal works than I have in reading purely devotional books. For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more [...]

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Dr. Ligon Duncan read this extended quote from C.S. Lewis during his presentation on the Church Fathers this past week at Together for the Gospel. There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern [...]

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In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis writes a series of letters from Screwtape to Wormwood, both of whom are demons working together to keep a man from pursuing Christ.  Screwtape is the mentor, if you will, and Wormwood, his nephew, is his disciple.  In one of Screwtape’s letters, he writes about how their goal is [...]

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Otherworldly

February 15, 2009 · Posted in Lewis, Life

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. —C.S. LewisMere Christianity Via: Tony Reinke

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