On the Problem of Pain (C.S. Lewis)

[Christianity] creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.
+ C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Read Full Post »

He Is not a Tame God (C.S. Lewis)

“Are you not thirsty?” said the Lion.
“I am dying of thirst,” said Jill.
“Then drink,” said the Lion.
“May I — could I — would you mind going away while I do?” said Jill. The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. And just as Jill gazed at its motionless [...]

Read Full Post »

We Will Be Perfect (C.S. Lewis)

He meant what he said. Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect — perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have [...]

Read Full Post »

No Half-Measures (C.S. Lewis)

The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. 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. [...]

Read Full Post »

Be Perfect!

“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
+ Matthew 5:48
I find a good many people have been bothered by what I said in the previous chapter about Our Lord’s words, ‘Be ye perfect.’ Some people seem to think this means ‘Unless you are perfect, I will not help you’; and as we cannot [...]

Read Full Post »

Pleasure – Gift or Curse? (C.S. Lewis)

“PLEASURE”?

As I’ve been trying to overcome my “need” for the pleasure of addiction, I found the following description of pleasure from C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters on point:
[This is a fictional elder demon writing to a younger, less experienced demon]
“Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying [...]

Read Full Post »

Perelandra – A Marvelous Book!

I just finished reading Perelandra by C.S. Lewis and I have to say it is a wonderful read!  Perelandra is the second installment in a science fiction trilogy that C.S. Lewis wrote in the 1940’s – long before he got around to creating the Narnia series.
As is the case with the Narnia books, C.S. [...]

Read Full Post »

On Trust & Obedience (C.S. Lewis)

If you like to put it that way, Christ offers something for nothing:  He even offers everything for nothing.  In a sense, the whole Christian life consists in accepting that very remarkable offer.  But the difference is to reach the point of recognising that all we have done and can do is nothing.  What we [...]

Read Full Post »

Unselfishness? Or Love? (C.S. Lewis)

UNSELFISHNESS OR LOVE?
If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for [...]

Read Full Post »

The Three-Personal God – C.S. Lewis

A good many people nowadays say, ‘I believe in a God, but not in a personal God.’  They feel the mysterious something which is behind all other things must be more than a person.  Now the Christians quite agree.  But the Christians are the only people who offer any idea of what a being that [...]

Read Full Post »