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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Tag Archives: good
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: AUGUST 30
If the first and lowest operation of pain shatters the illusion that all is well, the second shatters the illusion that what we have, whether good or bad in itself, is our own and enough for us. Everyone has noticed … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 24
For about a hundred years we have so concentrated on one of the virtues—‘kindness’ or mercy—that most of us do not feel anything except kindness to be really good or anything but cruelty to be really bad. Such lopsided ethical … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 8
On goodness Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 26
The good is uncreated; it never could have been otherwise; it has no shadow of contingency; it lies, as Plato said, on the other side of existence. It is the Rita of the Hindus by which the gods themselves are … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 4
A good shoe is a shoe you don’t notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not consciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 22
You may remember I said that the first step towards humility was to realise that one is proud. I want to add now that the next step is to make some serious attempt to practise the Christian virtues. A week … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 20
Everything is as good or as bad as our opinion makes it. From Till We Have Faces
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 10
Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy: They tell me H. is happy now, they tell me she is at peace. What makes them so sure of this? I don’t mean that I fear the worst of all. Nearly … Continue reading
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