Tag Archives: reality

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 19

Posted on September 19, 2019 by glsociety-admin

When I attempted . . . to describe our spiritual longings, I was omitting one of their most curious characteristics. We usually notice it just as the moment of vision dies away, as the music ends, or as the landscape … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged acceptance, accepted, acknowledgement, beautiful, beauty, belonging, bitterness, bridge, c s lewis, celestial light, characteristics, chasm, curious, deep desire, door, glory, God, good report, illusion, inanimate, inconsolable secret, indescribable, knocking, longing, messengers, music, notice, pain, pine, promise of glory, reality, resentment, response, spectators, spiritual longings, strangers, sweetness, the weight of glory, universe, vision, wake, welcome, welcomed, World | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 3

Posted on September 3, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On death On the one hand Death is the triumph of Satan, the punishment of the Fall, and the last enemy. Christ shed tears at the grave of Lazarus and sweated blood in Gethsemane: the Life of Lives that was … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged afraid, ambivalent, ashamed, baptised, blessed death, bodily death, c s lewis, Christ, Christianity, complication, conquer, creation, danger, death, death of Christ, defeat, depraved, dying, enemy, eternal life, eternally good, eternity, fallen, fallen man, Father, fiend, forbidden fruit, free, freedom, gethsemane, God, grave, heroic, higher, holy, horror, human death, humanity, humble, humility, ignominy, lazarus, life, lust, man, martha, mercy, miracle, miracles, monster, monstrous, mystical, natural immortality, nature, negative, nightmare civlisations, only hope, positive, power, preventive, pride, readiness, reality, rebellion, redeem, redemption, remedy, resurrection, safety device, satan, saving, science, secret of life, self, self renunciation, self surrender, sir thomas browne, spirit, spiritual death, supreme disgrace, surrender, tears, the fall, tree of life, triumph, unholy, universe, vicariousness, weapon, willing | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 22

Posted on August 22, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On time [The demon Screwtape writes:] The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged actuality, biological necessity, c s lewis, conscience, cross, determinate nature, eternal, eternal rays, eternal union, eternity, experience, fear, flows, freedom, frozen, future, giving thanks, grace, hope, humans, knowledge, limited value, lit up, obeying, passions, past, pleasure, point of time, present, reality, screwtape, separation, temporal, tempt, the screwtape letters, time, unrealities, voice of conscience | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 15

Posted on August 15, 2019 by glsociety-admin

Screwtape strategizes with Wormwood, using Time as a weapon: I had noticed, of course, that the humans were having a lull in their European war—what they naïvely call ‘The War’!—and am not surprised that there is a corresponding lull in … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged actuality, anxieties, c s lewis, conscience, cross, enemy, eternal union, eternity, european war, experience, freedom, giving thanks, grace, humans, lull, meditating, present, present moment, present pleasure, reality, screwtape, separation, stupid confidence, the screwtape letters, the war, time, tortured fear, weapon, wormwood, worried | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 17

Posted on July 17, 2019 by glsociety-admin

Fasnacht was once more proof how little purely intellectual power avail to make a big man. I thought that he had not lived a single one of his theories: he had worked them with his brain but not with his … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged all my road before me, c s lewis, fasnacht, idealistic nihilism, intellectual power, nonsense, pressure, reality, remarkable, suicide, theories | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 5

Posted on July 5, 2019 by glsociety-admin

“I see I’m making myself unpopular,” [Scudamour] went on, “just as Dr Ransom did the other day. Well, I dare say I am rather poor company at present. You will wait till you see yourselves in Othertime, and we’ll find … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged c s lewis, dangerous, devils, dr ransom, fouler, hell, meaner, ordinary world, othertime, real universe, reality, religion, science, scientific discovery, scudamour, the dark tower, unpopular, witches | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 5

Posted on June 5, 2019 by glsociety-admin

TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On how often one’s inner state differs from external circumstances; and on the proper attitude toward death and dying. 7 June 1959 I am sorry to hear that so many troubles crowd upon you but glad … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged believe, c s lewis, circumstances, death, dying, external circumstances, God, God's grace, happy, healthy, heaven, home, inner state, joy davidman, mary willis shelburne, modern world, morbid, osteoporosis, pain, peace of God, precarious, reality, st. paul, troubles, uneasy, unhappy, untroubled, wandering | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 18

Posted on May 18, 2019 by glsociety-admin

Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy: I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. The old life, the jokes, the drinks, the arguments, the lovemaking, the tiny, heartbreaking commonplace. On any … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged a grief observed, bible, c s lewis, consolations, cry out, dead, death, different, duty, family reunions, former things, gone, grief, heaven, joy davidman, mad, midnight, passed away, past, reality, religion, spiritualists, time, truth, unscriptural | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 12

Posted on May 12, 2019 by glsociety-admin

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. That is why children’s games are so important. They are always pretending to be grown-ups—playing soldiers, playing shop. But … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged a year with c s lewis, c s lewis, children, Christ, dressing up, games, grow up, grown ups, mere Christianity, prayers, pretence, pretending, reality, Son of God | Leave a comment

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 3

Posted on April 3, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On hell [The fictional George MacDonald is speaking.] “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ … Continue reading →

Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions | Tagged c s lewis, damned soul, dungeon, earthly, find, george macdonald, God, good, heaven, heavenly, hell, joy, knock, mind, opened, reality, seek, self choice, shut up, state of mind, the great divorce, Thy will be done | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: reality

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 19

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 3

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 22

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 15

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 17

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 5

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 5

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 18

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 12

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 3

Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers

Gospel Light Society

View Maps

Know Jesus

Growing in Christ

Social

Church Online

Listen