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Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchan...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives u...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Though lip service is paid to the gospel of grace, many Christians live as if only personal discipli...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psycho...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it ba...

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Brennan ManningThe Relentless Tenderness of Jesus

Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do ever...

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The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, p...

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Byron KatieA Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural...

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no su...

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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with u...

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Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what...

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destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to e...

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The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in....

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I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of...

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But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. ...

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At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of...

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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from...

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the wa...

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The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrende...

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It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutual...

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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be...

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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the mascul...

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If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for ma...

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He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

If individuals live only seventy years, then a state, or a nation, or a civilisation, which may last...

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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explana...

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On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white'...

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You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or somethin...

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and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord ...

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The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be ve...

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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but wi...

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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...

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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks...

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they nev...

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C. S. LewisA Grief Observed

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...

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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It ...

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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no...

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Un...

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Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrac...

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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it serio...

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It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways...

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Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question...

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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel...

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion...

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Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and...

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C. S. LewisLetters of C. S. Lewis

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than m...

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C. S. LewisLetters of C. S. Lewis

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on ...

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then f...

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God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those w...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally ...

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this ide...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowl...

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Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the prom...

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In other words, The­ol­ogy is prac­ti­cal: espe­cially now. In the old days, when there was less edu...

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I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who kno...

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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambi...

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If God annihilates or deflects or creates a unit of matter, He has created a new situation at that p...

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When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead

God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not ...

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try...

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

As someone has said "gods" is not really the plural of God; God has no plural.

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous indiv...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

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C. S. LewisThe Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the ...

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C. S. LewisThe Case for Christianity

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace."What a curious name!""Not half so curious as himse...

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C. S. LewisThe Chronicles of Narnia

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be pa...

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C. S. LewisThe Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for Go...

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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

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C. S. LewisThe Four Loves

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His b...

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I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no sh...

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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...

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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love ...

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But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies ha...

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Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that...

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The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea...

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Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across to the Lion. "Ple...

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Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy o...

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Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘C...

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For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you wh...

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His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically im...

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...

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C. S. LewisThe Problem of Pain

Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.

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C. S. LewisThe Problem of Pain

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order...

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their exi...

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

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C. S. LewisThe Weight of Glory

The divine is always abominable."Houses Under The Sea

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a ...

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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence ag...

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