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Tag Archives: the problem of pain
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 31
The thing you long for summons you away from the self. Even the desire for the thing lives only if you abandon it. This is the ultimate law—the seed dies to live, the bread must be cast upon the waters, … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 28
On self understanding Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you. From The Problem of Pain Compiled in Words to Live … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 21
The golden apple of selfhood, thrown among the false gods, became an apple of discord because they scrambled for it. They did not know the first rule of the holy game, which is that every player must by all means … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 24
On worship He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration. Do we suppose that they can do Him any good, or fear, like the chorus in Milton, that human irreverence can bring about “His glory’s diminution”? A man can no … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 2
On fasting The problem about avoiding our own pain admits a similar solution. Some ascetics have used self-torture. As a layman, I offer no opinion on the prudence of such a regimen; but I insist that, whatever its merits, self-torture … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 25
On depravity This chapter will have been misunderstood if anyone describes it as a reinstatement of the doctrine of Total Depravity. I disbelieve that doctrine, partly on the logical ground that if our depravity were total we should not know … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 24
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker’s, and even with laughter. … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 14
This signature on each soul may be a product of heredity and environment, but that only means that heredity and environment are among the instruments whereby God creates a soul. I am considering not how, but why, He makes each … Continue reading
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