3 posts tagged “c.s. lewis”
"The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it."
- C.S. Lewis
"What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard."
- C.S. Lewis
"The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not
usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning.
All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.
And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all
back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of
view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing
in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings
and frettings; coming in out of the wind."
- C.S. Lewis
