![]() ![]() He intends to come and live in it Himself.” ― C.S. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. ![]() But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” ― C.S. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” ― C.S. “God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” ― C.S. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ― C.S. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” ― C.S. ![]() Lewis Quotes on God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity If I missed a great quote, be sure to leave it in a comment! C.S. Lewis’s legacy and I thought I would share some of his best quotes from his most famous works, along with some extended excerpts compiled from my personal reading and online research. Last year marked the 50th year of his death, and in honor of C.S. His apologetic work Mere Christianityremains a top 5 apologetic for the Christian faith, while his children’s books The Chronicles of Narnia continue to teach the Christian faith in a powerful way. I would rather my footsteps never be seen and the sound of my voice only be heard by those near and never echo, than leave in my wake the fame of those whom we commonly call great.Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), former Oxford Professor, Christian apologist, lay theologian of now legendary status. To be thoroughly aware each day that I am alive, to be deeply sensitive to the world I inhabit and the world that I am , not to roam rough shot of the surface of this planet for achievement but to know where I step and to tread lightly. I have loved a thousand alpine meadows and mountain peaks. I am human, and experience the emotions of humanity: elation, frustration, loneliness, love.Īnd the greatest of these is love. I wish only to be alive and to experience this living to the fullest, to feel deeply about my days, to feel the goodness of life and the beauty of my world … this is my preference. ![]() That a humanoid god willed all this into existence simply to glorify himself -a bit too egotistically human- and or for us, his greatest creation, and our pleasure, use or misuse, seems not either to fit with the way I perceive the world while living close to it here at Little Five Lakes. “How can I claim to a greater importance than these alpine flowers, than anything that lives here, or even than the very rocks which eventually become the nourishing soil from which it all has to start? The existence of souls in men? And who can tell me the souls do not take up residence in plants and animals, and even these waters and rocky peaks? A higher evolution for the souls in men? So does that make us more important?Įverything has its place, everything supports everything else, everything is important to itself- to its own development- and to that which it supports. That is what life means and what life is for.” We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy.Īnd joy is, after all, the end of life. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. “The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, “What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?” and my answer must at once be, “It is no use.” There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. ![]()
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