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August 31, 2001
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians ever imagine that they are guilty themselves....The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil; Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind...As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
November 10, 2001
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
November 13, 2001
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
November 20, 2001The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
November 25, 2001
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
December 29, 2001
Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
January 25, 2002
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
February 11, 2002
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
April 30, 2002
Confronted with a cancer or a slum the Pantheist can say, "If you could only see it from the divine point of view, you would realize that this also is God." The Christian replies, "Don't talk... nonsense."
July 28, 2002
In some way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
The Nativity
Among the oxen (like an ox I'm slow)
I see a glory in the stable grow
Which, with the ox's dullness might at length
Give me an ox's strength.
Among the asses (stubborn I as they)
I see my Saviour where I looked for hay;
So may my beast like folly learn at least
The patience of a beast.
Among the sheep (I like a sheep have strayed)
I watch the manger where my Lord is laid;
Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence
Some woolly innocence!
February 28, 2003
Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.
March 29, 2003
The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
May 8, 2003
One needs the sweetness to start one on the spiritual life but, once started, one must learn to obey God for his own sake, not for the pleasure.
October 30, 2003
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn, and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
December 9, 2003
The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.
January 8, 2003
To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
January 23, 2004
Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him.
February 18, 2004
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
September 27, 2004
Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
November 28, 2004
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
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