Plain and direct
"Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them."C.S. Lewis, Letters to Children. C.S. Lewis offers several…
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Pain
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.C.S.…
Selflessness
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call ‘humble’ nowadays: he will not be a…
Onward
C.S. Lewis is a compassionate writer. He remembers his unhappy childhood well enough to engage his readers (whatever their age) with impressive empathy. I wrote…
On reading
One of the great ironies of our age is that we read more words per day than any other generation in the history of the…
Heavenly mindedness
There's an old cliche that goes like this: "They're so heavenly minded they're no earthly good." It's a criticism of religious folks who are all…
Future thieves
C.S. Lewis warns, in his The Screwtape Letters, about being so future-focused that we waste the present. This can happen negatively--by being so worried about…
Mamma bear
We really struggle to understand God. And that's to be expected, given how small we are. Yet, that fact doesn't make our struggle less frustrating.…
Do you hear music?
In C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew, you get to read about the creation of Narnia. It's beautiful. Aslan, the Lion, sings the world into existence--the…
His tears
When I was a kid, our church had a scripture memory program for children. Each week we'd memorize our verses and earn prizes. If we…