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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Category Archives: Devotions
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 15
He sat perfectly still. After seeing him, I think I shall never describe anyone in our own time as ‘perfectly still’ again. His stillness was not like that of a man asleep, nor like that of an artist’s model: it … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 14
This signature on each soul may be a product of heredity and environment, but that only means that heredity and environment are among the instruments whereby God creates a soul. I am considering not how, but why, He makes each … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 13
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. From Till We Have Faces
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 12
But between them and the foot of the sky there was something so white on the green grass that even with their eagles’ eyes they could hardly look at it. They came on and saw that it was a Lamb. … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 11
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 10
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do no share and which, till that moment, each believed to … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 9
IN PRAISE OF SOLID PEOPLE Thank God that there are solid folk Who water flowers and roll the lawn, And sit and sew and talk and smoke, And snore all through the summer dawn. Who pass untroubled nights and days … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 8
A Ghost argues with the Bright Spirit who was her brother Reginald: ‘It’s a lie. A wicked, cruel lie. How could anyone love their son more than I did? Haven’t I lived only for his memory all these years?’ ‘That … Continue reading
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 7
On death “But,” said Eustace, looking at Aslan. “Hasn’t he—er—died?” “Yes,” said the Lion in a very quiet voice, almost (Jill thought) as if he were laughing. “He has died. Most people have, you know. Even I have. There are … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 6
There are three ways of taking the command to turn the other cheek. One is the Pacifist interpretation; it means what it says and imposes a duty of nonresistance on all men in all circumstances. Another is the minimising interpretation; … Continue reading