Lewis

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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