If you find yourself with a desire that no experience in this world can satisfy, then the most probable explanation is that you were made for another world.
C.S. LewisWe can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.
C.S. LewisTags: pain christianity suffering
What do they teach them at these schools?
C.S. LewisTags: narnia
One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
C.S. LewisTags: education knowledge christianity
That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.
C.S. LewisTags: girls
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.
C.S. LewisIn our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s we do not accept them easily enough.
C.S. LewisSurely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
C.S. LewisTags: inspirational christianity religious
I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.
C.S. LewisTags: prayer self-knowledge
This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.
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