-
Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
-
Tag Archives: pleasure
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 17
TO MRS. RAY GARRETT: On the real program of the spiritual life—living in the present moment. 12 September 1960 The whole lesson of my life has been that no ‘methods of stimulation’ are of any lasting use. They are indeed … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged c s lewis, drugs, duty, effective, emotions, experiences, life, pain, pleasure, present moment, ray garrett, spiritual life, stimulation, thrills
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 2
The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged bathe, c s lewis, Christian doctrine, curious, ecstasy, encourage, football match, friends, fun, God, happiness, happy love, hearts, home, inns, journey, joy, landscape, merriment, merry meeting, mistake, nature, obstacle, oppose, our Father, pleasant, pleasure, refresh, rest, return to God, safe, scattered, security, settled, suffering, symphony, the problem of pain, World
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 13
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism – the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. But we have hardly yet begun what may be called Hedonics, the science or philosophy of Pleasure. And … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged c s lewis, experience, fantasy, gloomy, hedonics, hedonism, infinity, literary criticism, literature, living, murmur of life, myth, philosophy, pleasure, possession, present concerns, quivering, realist, realistic, romance, science, story, wishful thinking, wonder
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 29
The human spirit will not even begin to try and surrender self-will as long as all seem to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged c s lewis, conscience, deaf world, error, evil, gluttons, God, human spirit, hurt, ignore, masked evil, pain, pleasure, self will, sin, sins, stupidities, surrender, the problem of pain
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 3
It was, however, clear to everyone that Eustace’s character had been rather improved by becoming a dragon. He was anxious to help. He flew over the whole island and found it was all mountainous and inhabited only by wild goats … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged a year with aslan, anxious, c s lewis, character, comfort, despair, dragon, dreary, eustace, help, liked, liking others, pleasure, the voyage of the dawn treader, triumph
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 5
TO MARY MARGARET McCASLIN: On how, after weathering a bereavement, one feels abandoned by God; on how God works on our behalf even when we feel He is inactive; and on the necessity of continuing to use the ordinary means … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged abandoned, active love, bereavement, bleak, c s lewis, calamity, Christ, christian love, christian teaching, communions, confusion, conscience, divinely supported, extraordinary, follow Christ, giving, God, God's presence, grow spiritually, guidances, heavenly, inactive, innocent, life, loneliness, lonely, love, loved, mary margaret mccaslin, natural, ordinary, pleasure, prayers, prudence, receiving, routine, sanctity, spiritual life, sympathy, unaided
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 29
TO BEDE GRIFFITHS: On Lewis’s favorite novel by Charles Dickens; on the desire to die; on longing; on joy; on having; and on wanting. 5 November 1954 The best Dickens always seems to me to be the one I have … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged amusement, bede griffiths, bleak house, c s lewis, charles dickens, death, desire, die, harsh world, having, heaven, joy, longing, moods, patria, pilgrim, pleasure, wanting
Leave a comment