Status Updates From Viața lui Martyn Lloyd-Jone...

Apparently MLJ chatted with C.S. Lewis on a boat trip to Ireland in 1953. Kind of fascinating to think about these two "giants" interacting.

Lloyd-Jones asked him, "When are you going to write another book?"

Lewis replied, "When I understand the meaning of prayer."

"To reach the Welshman’s will, nothing will suffice but the strength and might of God, as it is in Christ’s gospel. But this gospel at the same time is large enough to answer all the questions of the mind and reason, to quench the thirst for wholeness in the realm of the mind and also to move us to the depths of our being." (pp. 169-170)

On his calling to ministry: A woman on staff at his hospital suddenly and tragically died. A friend of hers, also on staff went and sat with MLJ.

"For some two hours, without a word, the distraught man stared vacantly into the grate until every aspect of the scene was indelibly fixed upon LJ's memory...'I saw the vanity of all human greatness. Here was a tragedy, a man without any hope at all."' Wow.