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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Category Archives: Devotions
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 20
“We are told,” said Camilla, “to pray to his image, and then he himself will come from behind us and lay his hundred hands upon our heads and breathe into us the greater life so that we shall live no … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 19
But how shall I describe the other knocking? It was, in some curious way, soft; “soft as wool and sharp as death,” soft but unendurably heavy, as if at each blow some enormous hand fell on the outside of the … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 18
TO MARY VAN DEUSEN: On God wanting us and not what we can do for God; and on our job to become more and more God’s. 25 March 1954 I must be short for I have had a run of … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 16
On humility And that is enough to raise our thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 15
If you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, ‘How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove their oar … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 14
THE CONDEMNED There is a wildness still in England that will not feed In cages; it shrinks away from the touch of the trainer’s hand, Easy to kill, not easy to tame. It will never breed In a zoo for … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 13
Affection, as I have said, is the humblest love. It gives itself no airs. People can be proud of being ‘in love’, or of friendship. Affection is modest—even furtive and shame-faced. Once when I had remarked on the affection quite … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 12
On faith [The demon Screwtape writes:] Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 11
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are … Continue reading
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