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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 7
WORMWOOD Thou only art alternative to God, oh, dark And burning island among spirits, tenth hierarch, Wormwood, immortal Satan, Ahriman, alone Second to Him to whom no second else were known, Being essential fire, sprung of His fire, but bound … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 6
Screwtape advises Wormwood on using time to wear down a soul: The Enemy has guarded him from you through the first great wave of temptations. But, if only he can be kept alive, you have time itself for your ally. … 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: JUNE 21
‘You are a spirit, and it is well with you, But I am come out of great folly and shame, The sack of cities, wrongs I must undo… But tell me of the beast, and whence it came; Who were … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 17
TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On the hard task of learning to depend only on God and on nothing and no one else. 6 December 1955 I was most distressed by the news in your letter of Dec. 2nd. . . … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 31
On glory [And this brings me to] the other sense of glory—glory as brightness, splendour, luminosity. We are to shine as the sun, we are to be given the Morning Star. I think I begin to see what it means. … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 30
“We know not what we shall be”; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled lines on flat paper. … Continue reading
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JANUARY 25
NIGHT After the fret and failure of this day, And weariness of thought, O Mother Night, Come with soft kiss to soothe our care away And all our little tumults set to right; Most pitiful of all death’s kindred fair, … Continue reading
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