Archive: C.S. Lewis category
I love good quotes. I also love the work of C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and G.K. Chesterton.
Since it's just over halfway through the year, I figured I'd check in on my New Year's resolutions for 2008 and see how I'm doing:
1. I've read 19 books so far this year. Yeah, Houston, I'm in trouble. Considering how things are going I'm not sure if ...
I'm not entirely sure what's going on, but I feel busier than I've been in a long time. Objectively speaking, though, I don't think that's actually the case. It's weird. At any rate, this perceived busyness is the reason I haven't been posting quite every day. ...
I can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but I've stumbled across what seems to be an almost surefire way to pray sincerely, at least for me. And it's so simple that I'm embarrassed it's taken me this long to open my eyes to it: pray for other people.
But ...
When people used to ask me what my favorite book was, I wasn't quite sure what to say, so I responded with the Chronicles of Narnia. It wasn't until a few days ago when in a conversation with a friend I realized that the Narnia books really aren't my ...
Today we have three quotes from C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain, a fabulous book chock-full of thought-provoking hooks like these.
You will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. (p. 111)
Mere time does nothing ...
Once again a C.S. Lewis Society meeting has graciously provided a blog entry for me. :)
A thought and then an epiphany. How could a good God let bad things happen? Till now, I've just assumed that it's part of the test -- that God planned it in, planting ...
In the mythsoc digest that came through last night, there's a fascinating article by Jef Murray as part of the January 2008 issue of his Mystical Realms newsletter:
In the Lord of the Rings, all of Hobbiton was paralyzed by Saruman and just a few dozen of the Big ...
On my walk down the hill from campus this afternoon, two girls were walking a few yards ahead of me. Suddenly the one on the right hit a patch of ice and kerplunked down on her tush. A choice and rather earthy expletive split the air, followed by ...
I've been reading C.S. Lewis's Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer lately, and I came across this passage which really spoke to me:
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good. Do you ...
