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Category Archives: Devotions
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 8
On God He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only. From The Weight of Glory Compiled in Words to Live By
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 6
Letter to his father: from the Oxford Union Society, Postmark: 30 November 1921 I am afraid that my weakness in yielding to the Colonel’s request for a copy of ‘Optimism’ had reduced the poor man to permanent silence. I must … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 4
No one will believe this who has not lived long and looked hard, so that he knows how suddenly a passion for which has for years been wrapped round the whole of the heart will dry up and wither. Perhaps … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 3
Have we any reason to suppose that total self-knowledge, if it were given to us, would be for our good? Children and fools, we are told, should never look at half-done work; and we are not yet, I trust, even … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 2
On fasting The problem about avoiding our own pain admits a similar solution. Some ascetics have used self-torture. As a layman, I offer no opinion on the prudence of such a regimen; but I insist that, whatever its merits, self-torture … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 1
TO PHOEBE HESKETH: On how sorrow seems to isolate; and on how hard it is to forgive. Lewis reveals that Joy’s physician had failed to diagnose her cancer at a stage when it could have been treated successfully. 14 June … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 31
Some time ago Matthew Arnold prophesied that poetry would come to replace religion; and the personal heretics have made this true in a sense which he probably did not foresee. Poetry has, naturally enough, not yet attempted the salvation of … Continue reading
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