“Love is not something you do; love is someone you are. It is your True Self.8 Love is where you came from and love is where you’re going. It’s not something you can buy. It’s not something you can attain. It is the presence of God within you, called the Holy Spirit—or what some theologians name uncreated grace.”
― The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
― The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
“Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”
― A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
― A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“What matters with respect to forgiveness is not how I feel about the person who has wronged me, but how I measure and temper my interpersonal response to that wrong.”
― Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
― Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
“And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.”
― A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
― A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“He will be infinitely merciful to our repeated failures; I know no promise that He will accept a deliberate compromise. For He has, in the last resort, nothing to give us but Himself; and He can give that only insofar as our self-affirming will retires and makes room for Him in our souls.”
― A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
― A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
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