In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings to be fruitful. – C.S. Lewis as quoted by Geisler, Norm [...]
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Men Without Chests
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Virtue on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Instead of Apologies, We Give God Bad Excuses and Are All Too Easily Satisfied With Ourselves
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Excuses, Forgiveness, God's Forgiveness, Sins on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now it seems to me that we often make a mistake both about God’s forgiveness of our sins and about the forgiveness of our sins and about the forgiveness we are told to offer to other people’s sins. Take it first about God’s forgiveness. I find that when I think I am asking God to [...]
If You Do Not Forgive, You Will Not be Forgiven
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Forgiveness, God's Forgiveness, Lord's Prayer, Sins on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We believe that God forgives us our sins; but also that He will not do so unless we forgive other people their sins against us. There is no doubt about the second part of this statement. It is in the Lord’s Prayer; t was emphatically stated by our Lord. If you don’t forgive you will [...]
Only a New Creature Can Inherent Eternal Life
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Christianity, Collectivism, Eternal Life, Human Individualism, Natural Self, Pelagian, Personality, Vale, Worship on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have wanted to try to expel that quite un-Christian worship of the human individual simply as such which is so rampant in modern thought side by side with our collectivism, for one error begets the opposite error and, far from neutralizing, they aggravate each other. I mean the pestilent notion (one sees it in [...]
To Die for Valuable Men Would Not be Divine but Only Heroic
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Christ's Death, Equality, God's Love, Love, Sinners, Value of Man on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
God did not die for man because of some value He perceived in him. The value of each human soul considered simply in itself, out of relation to God, is zero. As St. Paul writes, to have died for valuable men would have been not divine but merely heroic; but God died for sinners. He [...]
Political Equality
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Democracy, Equality, Fallen Man, Politics on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the [...]
The Christian Is Called not to Individualism but to Membership into the Mystical Body
Posted in Lewis, C.S. on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is, in fact, a fatal tendency in all human activities for the means to encroach upon the very ends which they were intended to serve. Thus money comes to hinder the exchange of commodities, and rules of art to hamper genius, and examinations to prevent young men from becoming learned. It does not, unfortunately, [...]
We Live in a Starved World
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Friendship, Life, Privacy, Silence, Solitude on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. – C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, copyright 1949, 1976, page 160
I Believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun Has Risen…
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Art, Christianity, Morality, Science, Theology on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Christian Theology can fit in science, art, morality and the sub-Christian religions. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science itself. 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. – [...]
Science, No More Significant Than the Sound of Wind in the Trees
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Christianity, Science, Science vs. Theology on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If, on the other hand, I swallow the scientific cosmology as a whole, then not only can I not fit in Christianity, but I cannot even fit in science. If minds are wholly dependent on brains, and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of atoms, I cannot understand [...]
